# SPIFFE X.509 SVID

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/spiffe/spiffe-x509-svid-api/  
**Provider:** SPIFFE — https://apis.io/providers/spiffe/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe/blob/main/standards/X509-SVID.md

SPIFFE X.509 SVID is one of 4 APIs that [SPIFFE](https://apis.io/providers/spiffe/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Certificate, Identity, mTLS, Security, and X.509. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and a GitHub repository.

The SPIFFE X.509 SVID (SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document) is a standard for encoding SPIFFE identities into X.509 certificates. The Subject Alternative Name field carries the SPIFFE ID URI, enabling mutual TLS authentication between workloads using standard X.509 certificate validation libraries.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://spiffe.io/docs/latest/spiffe-about/svid/
- **Reference** — https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe/blob/main/standards/X509-SVID.md
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe

## Other SPIFFE APIs (3)

- [SPIFFE Workload API](https://apis.io/apis/spiffe/spiffe-workload-api/)
- [SPIFFE JWT SVID](https://apis.io/apis/spiffe/spiffe-jwt-svid-api/)
- [SPIFFE Bundle API](https://apis.io/apis/spiffe/spiffe-bundle-api/)

## Tags

Certificate, Identity, mTLS, Security, X.509

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