Relying Party

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An entity that relies upon the Subscriber's token and credentials or a Verifier's assertion of a Claimant’s identity, typically to process a transaction or grant access to information or a system.

polysemousMWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

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NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

An entity that relies upon the subscriber’s credentials, typically to process a transaction or grant access to information or a system.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Relying Parties
possessive: Relying Party's
pluralpossessive: Relying Parties'

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