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3.2.1 Credential Service Provider (CSP)

NIST PIV and digital identity SP 800-63C-4 against SP 800-63C
All changes in this version
added 3 Common Federation Requirements part of 3.2

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Before · SP 800-63C

After · SP 800-63C-4

Credential Service Provider (CSP)

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Before · SP 800-63C

After · SP 800-63C-4

The CSP collects and verifies attributes from the subscriber and stores them in a subscriber account. The CSP also binds one or more authenticators to the subscriber account and allows the subscriber to directly authenticate to systems capable of verifying an authenticator.

The CSP provides attributes, derived attribute values, or attribute bundles to the IdP for use in the federation transaction. In particular, the CSP issues signed attribute bundles to subscriber-controlled wallets to allow the wallet to act as an IdP in the federation process, as discussed in Sec. 5.1 .