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SPIFFE

Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone

Definition

SPIFFE is an open standard for workload identity that provides cryptographically verifiable identities (SPIFFE IDs) to software services regardless of where they run. SPIFFE IDs are expressed as URIs (e.g., spiffe://example.com/service/payments) and delivered via X.509 certificates or JWTs.

It solves the 'secret zero' problem by giving workloads an identity without pre-shared secrets.

Related Terms

SPIRE

SPIFFE Runtime Environment

mTLS

Mutual TLS

ZTA

Zero Trust Architecture

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