RFC 9921 on CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) Header Parameter for Timestamp Tokens as Defined in RFC 3161
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RFC 9921
Title: CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
Header Parameter for Timestamp Tokens
as Defined in RFC 3161
Author: H. Birkholz,
T. Fossati,
M. Riechert
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2026
Mailbox: henk.birkholz@ietf.contact,
thomas.fossati@linaro.org,
maik.riechert@microsoft.com
Pages: 21
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-cose-tsa-tst-header-parameter-08.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9921
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9921
This document defines two CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
header parameters for incorporating timestamping based on RFC 3161
into COSE message structures (COSE_Sign and COSE_Sign1). This enables
the use of established timestamping infrastructure per RFC 3161 in
COSE-based protocols.
This document is a product of the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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