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      "title": "SoK: Security of Autonomous LLM Agents in Agentic Commerce",
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      "authors": [
        "Qian'ang Mao",
        "Jiaxin Wang",
        "Ya Liu",
        "Li Zhu",
        "Cong Ma",
        "Jiaqi Yan"
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        "identity",
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      "url": "https://www.mastercard.com/global/en/news-and-trends/press/2025/september/mastercard-unveils-new-tools-and-collaborations-to-power-smarter,-safer-agentic-commerce.html",
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      "summary": "Official repository of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), described as \"Building a Secure and Interoperable Future for AI-Driven Payments.\"",
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      "title": "Getting started with Trusted Agent Protocol",
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      "summary": "Visa developer documentation for merchants and infrastructure providers. It presents the Trusted Agent Protocol as a verifiable cryptographic standard for recognizing Visa-approved AI agents.",
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        "security"
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      "title": "DNS for AI Discovery (draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid-02)",
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        "Nic Williams",
        "Behcet Sarikaya",
        "Roland Schott",
        "Jeffrey Damick"
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        "standards"
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        "J. Richer",
        "M. Sporny"
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        "identity",
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        "http"
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      "category": "agent-protocols",
      "summary": "Free public registry of A2A agents that is itself discoverable as an A2A agent. It offers natural-language agent search and DNS- and GitHub-based verification, and its agent card includes an extension that declares a payment model.",
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        "identity"
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        "A. Parecki"
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      "title": "HTTP Message Signatures for automated traffic (draft-ietf-webbotauth-httpsig-protocol-00)",
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      "authors": [
        "Thibault Meunier",
        "Sandor Major"
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      "date_published": "2026-09-01",
      "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-webbotauth-httpsig-protocol/",
      "type": "spec",
      "category": "safety-security",
      "summary": "IETF working-group draft (Web Bot Auth) under which bots and agents identify themselves by signing requests with RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures, with keys discoverable from a published key directory. It replaces the earlier individual architecture draft.",
      "tags": [
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        "http",
        "web-agents"
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