Accepted Form of JWTs

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jwt-authn

Accepted Form of JWTs

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This package is for dealing with JWTs of the form JWS JSON Compact Serialization:

*[hint: read the two vertical bars/pipes “

” as AND operators.](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7515#section-1.1)

BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) || '.' ||
BASE64URL(JWS Payload) || '.' ||
BASE64URL(JWS Signature)

Ex:
eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLA0KICJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJqb2UiLA0KICJleHAiOjEzMDA4MTkzODAsDQogImh0dHA6Ly9leGFtcGxlLmNvbS9pc19yb290Ijp0cnVlfQ.dBjftJeZ4CVP-mB92K27uhbUJU1p1r_wW1gFWFOEjXk

  where:
    JWS Protected Header: '{"typ":"JWT",\r\n "alg":"HS256"}'
    JWS Payload: '{"iss":"joe",\r\n "exp":1300819380,\r\n "http://example.com/is_root":true}'
    JWS Signature: HS256(ASCII(BASE64URL(UTF8(JWS Protected Header)) || '.' ||
       BASE64URL(JWS Payload))) = dBjftJeZ4CVP-mB92K27uhbUJU1p1r_wW1gFWFOEjXk