---
name: security
description: "FDC3 security mechanisms — signed context, encrypted private channels and verified user identity — published as @qcomp/fdc3-security. Use it when context or channels must be authenticated or encrypted across FDC3-enabled applications."
---

# FDC3 security extensions

@qcomp/fdc3-security 3.0.0-beta.1 — FDC3 security extensions.

## What this package provides

The npm registry description for this package, verbatim at build time:

> FDC3 Security provides standardized mechanisms for **signed context**, **encrypted private channels**, and **verified user identity** across FDC3-enabled applications.

## When to use this

- FDC3 context must be signed before another app can trust it.
- You need encrypted private channels between applications.
- You need verified user identity across FDC3-enabled applications.

## Install

~~~sh
npm install @qcomp/fdc3-security@3.0.0-beta.1
~~~

## Provenance

Version, description, tarball and repository were read from https://registry.npmjs.org/ at build time for
this qcompute.dev demonstrator host. The display name and usage list above are authored for the
demonstrator; the registry quotation is not. The package's own documentation is at https://fdc3.finos.org/.
Tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/@qcomp/fdc3-security/-/fdc3-security-3.0.0-beta.1.tgz