JSON Web Tokens Simplified

Illustrating web security, authentication, and authorization using hotel keycards

JSON Web Tokens are a standard way of managing authenticated access to web services. But JSON Web Tokens, also called JWTs (pronounced “Jot”) can be intimidating.

JSON Web Tokens are strings that are:

Provided by a server on…

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