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Designing PIC-X: Exchanging an OAuth Access Token for an Initial PCA
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PIC-X receives an OAuth access token, validates it, and converts it into the initial PCA from which the PIC lineage begins.
OAuth access token
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├── token validation
├── claim normalization
├── scope parsing
└── PCA0 construction
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Initial PIC lineage
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Using PIC-X requires only two exchange operations.