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Authentication
Billy Bunn edited this page Apr 2, 2019
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JSON web tokens are abbreviated JWT. They're a way of securely transmitting data between parties with JSON objects. They're secure because they're digitally "signed" using a "secret" or with a "key".
JWTs are used to authorize users who have signed-in to access otherwise restricted routes, services and resources. They're also a used to securely exchange information.
JWTs have 3 main parts:
- header
- payload
- signature
- Read securing passwords
- Read basic auth
- Read intro to jwt
- Read OWASP auth cheatsheet
- bcrypt docs
- jsonwebtoken docs
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