---
title: CBIdentityAuthority
framework: Collaboration
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
platforms: [macOS 10.5+]
path: collaboration/cbidentityauthority
---

# CBIdentityAuthority

An identity authority is a database that stores information about identities. The CBIdentityAuthority class defines one or more identity authorities. You can search this database for identities in conjunction with the CBIdentity class factory methods.

## Declaration

```swift
class CBIdentityAuthority
```

## Topics

### Accessing Identity Authorities

- [localizedName](collaboration/cbidentityauthority/localizedname.md)
- [local()](collaboration/cbidentityauthority/local().md)
- [managed()](collaboration/cbidentityauthority/managed().md)
- [default()](collaboration/cbidentityauthority/default().md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)