Relying Party (Dictionary Entry)

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Relying Party: An individual or organization that relies on another party to verify the identity of the user; the validity of the public key, associated algorithms and any relevant parameters; and the user’s possession of the corresponding private key.

2.1.3 Relying Parties

Relying parties are the parties that in order to provide services to users (or agents on behalf of users) or access to resources require the submission of proper credentials by users. An important requirement by these parties is to determine to which extent they may trust the credentials and the attributes and/or assertions these credential contain. It may be the case that certain services or accesses to certain resources do not require high-assurance credentials, whereas others do. Such assurance processes are crucial for these parties. A further important requirement is to be able to verify these attributes with the issuers; the verification process may be quite complex depending on the type of verification to perform, and thus an effective verification infrastructure needs to be in place. Relying parties may be required to comply with regulations and laws aimed at preventing identity theft and therefore identity solutions supporting compliance checking processes must be deployed.

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