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draft chu oauth subject key binding 00 OAuth Subject Signing Key Binding for Resource Servers

Verifying a subject's signature requires a trusted key relation. That relation does not independently establish the authority of the signed instruction or settle the application semantics the draft leaves open.

What does this source establish about the mechanism and its authority boundary?

Verifying a subject's signature requires a trusted key relation. That relation does not independently establish the authority of the signed instruction or settle the application semantics the draft leaves open.

What the source establishes

An individual OAuth draft proposes conveying subject signing keys to resource servers through access tokens or introspection. The binding is scoped to the subject, server audience and token validity; enrollment and application level evidence semantics are expressly outside its scope.

Moona assessment and evidence limits

Verifying a subject's signature requires a trusted key relation. That relation does not independently establish the authority of the signed instruction or settle the application semantics the draft leaves open.

Verification scope

Moona reviewed the retained source on 29 September 2026. Source acquisition and review establish provenance for this account; they do not reproduce an experiment, validate a vendor deployment or authorize an action.

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