JavaScript Message Security Format
Eric Rescorla, Joe Hildebrand · 2011
Many applications require the ability to send cryptographically secured messages. While the IETF has defined a number of formats for such messages (e.g. CMS) those formats use encodings which are not congenial for Web applications. This document describes a new cryptographic message format which is based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and thus is easy for Web applications to generate and parse.