An encrypted JWT is known as JWE (JSON Web Encryption) and, unlike JWS, its compact serialization form has 5 elements separated with a dot. Additionally to the encrypted header and payload, it includes the encrypted key, initialization vec…
there’s a o…nticity of a message, but not generate it. The algorithm is based on the public/private key scheme. The private key can be used to both create a signed message and to verify its authenticity. The public key, in contrast, can only be used to verify the authenticity of a message. This is important in one-to-many signing scenarios, like Single-Sign On, where there’s a only one …