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Credential Rotation — Verification

Credential Rotation, in this verification guide, is limited to the following inspected scope. Sender constraint, audience-restricted access tokens, and refresh-token rotation. Current Maha machine-credential issuance shape and refusal checks. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.

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answer

Direct answer

Credential Rotation, in this verification guide, is limited to the following inspected scope. Sender constraint, audience-restricted access tokens, and refresh-token rotation. Current Maha machine-credential issuance shape and refusal checks. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.

role-method

Verification guide

Recompute or re-observe the relevant identity, digest, state, or output instead of trusting a self-declared success field.

A verifier must distinguish missing evidence, failed observation, mismatch, and confirmed success.

Applied scope: Sender constraint, audience-restricted access tokens, and refresh-token rotation. Current Maha machine-credential issuance shape and refusal checks.

authority

Definition and operating context

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evidence

Evidence and exact locators

Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security — Sections 2.2, 2.3, and 4.14. Establishes: Sender constraint, audience-restricted access tokens, and refresh-token rotation.

Agent client credential authorization — createCredentialSecret; authorizeClientAccess; status and expires_at checks. Establishes: Current Maha machine-credential issuance shape and refusal checks.

limitations

What the evidence does not establish

The BCP addresses OAuth; non-OAuth secrets need an explicitly translated lifecycle.

The source does not prove external revocation or rotation has occurred.

This route must not claim research-source duplication.

This route must not claim unreleased evidence claims.

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Related definitions and applications

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Questions this page can answer

What does Credential Rotation mean in this bounded context?

Credential Rotation, in this verification guide, is limited to the following inspected scope. Sender constraint, audience-restricted access tokens, and refresh-token rotation. Current Maha machine-credential issuance shape and refusal checks. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.

Which inspected sources support this verification answer?

Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security (RFC 9700 / BCP 240, January 2025), at Sections 2.2, 2.3, and 4.14, supports sender constraint, audience-restricted access tokens, and refresh-token rotation. Agent client credential authorization (repository source reviewed 2026-09-05), at createCredentialSecret; authorizeClientAccess; status and expires_at checks, supports current Maha machine-credential issuance shape and refusal checks.

What does the evidence not establish?

The BCP addresses OAuth; non-OAuth secrets need an explicitly translated lifecycle. The source does not prove external revocation or rotation has occurred. Property boundary: This route may apply authority; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.

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This page is the local maha-strategies definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.

What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?

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