What are JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Understand the details of JWT, JWK, and JWE.
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Overview
We have two parties, the client and the server, involved in many applications. We need to pass information back and forth between them. Otherwise, the app we’re creating will be completely useless.
If we use a TLS secured HTTPS connection (see the lesson Authentication). we need some integrity checks. It isn’t always some external party that wants to steal our data or gain access to the application. One of our regular users may try to gain access to data that they shouldn’t have.
Ift we need to communicate some data over an unsecure connection, it should ideally be ...