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SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document: a short-lived cryptographic identity document, either an X.509 certificate or a JWT, that proves a workload's SPIFFE ID and is issued and rotated through the SPIFFE Workload API, which SPIRE implements 1. A credential that expires in minutes need not be hunted down after an incident, only not reissued.

Developed in
ch. 23, Short-lived, attested credentials
Chapters
ch. 23, AI Agents
Contrast with
Workload identity
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Sources

  1. [1] SPIFFE overview (short-lived cryptographic identity documents called SVIDs, as X.509 certificates or JWTs; the Workload API issues and rotates them; SPIRE implementation). SPIFFE project. 2026. https://spiffe.io/docs/latest/spiffe-about/overview/ (verified: primary)

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). SVID. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/svid. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026svid,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{SVID}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/svid}
}