RFC 9578 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2024

Privacy Pass Issuance Protocols

Overview

RFC 9578, “Privacy Pass Issuance Protocols”, is a Proposed Standard document published in June 2024 by S. Celi, A. Davidson, S. Valdez, C. A. Wood. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document specifies two variants of the two-message issuance protocol for Privacy Pass tokens: one that produces tokens that are privately verifiable using the Issuer Private Key and one that produces tokens that are publicly verifiable using the Issuer Public Key. Instances of "issuance protocol" and "issuance protocols" in the text of this document are used interchangeably to refer to the two variants of the Privacy Pass issuance protocol.

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What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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