A verifiable statement from an IdP to an RP that contains information about an end user. Assertions may also contain information about the end user’s authentication event at the IdP.
A statement from a verifier to an RP that contains information about a subscriber. Assertions may also contain verified attributes.
An assertion is a package of information that facilitates the sharing of identity and security information across security domains.
Claim: A piece of asserted information, often in the form of a name/value pair. Claims make up the usual structure of Evidence and other RATS artifacts. Compare: /claim/ in
claim An assertion made about a subject.
The assertionMethod verification relationship is used to specify how the DID subject is expected to express claims, such as for the purposes of issuing a Verifiable Credential.
The cryptographically signed AuthenticatorAssertionResponse object returned by an authenticator as the result of an authenticatorGetAssertion operation.
the act of asserting or something that is asserted: such as insistent and positive affirming, maintaining, or defending (as of a right or attribute) a declaration that something is the case