Attribute Authority

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In an attributive Authority (eg: German  Attributsauthorität ) or an attribute store (about: German  attribute memory ) is an information system which attributes to a user or a client application of a service providing in a secure way.

An attributive Authority serves as identity provider ( English Identity Provider (IdP) or English identity assertion provider ) and provides attribute-based access control ( English attribute-based access control , ABAC). Attributive authorities are used in federated authentication systems such as OpenID and OAuth .

The attributes are provided in the form of digitally certified and possibly encrypted tokens, such as a SAML token or JSON web token (JWT).

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