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Relying Party

nounid 3824·updated May 9, 2026
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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.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Identity85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
An entity that relies upon the subscriber’s credentials, typically to process a transaction or grant access to information or a system.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
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.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
An entity that relies upon the subscriber’s credentials, typically to process a transaction or grant access to information or a system.
NIST SP 800-631 senseview framework →
§1
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.

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.