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Web Security and Access Management: JWT, OAuth2 & OpenId Connect

JWT Validation

Explore how JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are validated for secure authentication and authorization. Learn the differences between symmetric and asymmetric signing, and understand the importance of verifying claims such as expiration, audience, and not-before timestamps to ensure token integrity and proper access control.

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In this lesson, we will look at how JWTs can be used as an authentication and authorization mechanism. As mentioned in the previous lesson, we will be discussing signed JWTs.

Here is the basic flow of JWT authentication:

  1. The client sends a request to the server with user credentials.
  2. The server generates a signed JWT for the client
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