JWT

Noun

Meaning

JWT (countable and uncountable, plural JWTs)

(Internet) Initialism of JSON Web Token (“a means of transmitting claims in optionally encrypted JSON format; an individual transmission of this kind”).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Access Tokens can be an opaque string, JWT, or non-JWT token. Source: Internet

Atlassian Connect now supports the JWT Bearer token authorization grant type for OAuth 2.0 for JIRA and Confluence Cloud. Source: Internet

Essentially, when a user clicked on the 'Sign in with Apple' option in an app, a request is sent to the company for the users' login information and this would then send a JSON Web Token (JWT), granting authorization. Source: Internet

A quick way to inspect a JWT is by using the website. Source: Internet

For RS256 tokens, the JWT middleware downloads the OIDC discovery document from and configures the Issuer based on the attribute specified in that document. Source: Internet

I picked GitHub as the authentication layer, but you can use the Google or Twitter OAuth provider, your Enterprise LDAP solution, your JWT tokens, or your own custom solution. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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