JSON web tokens

Security Lit Limited
InfoSec Write-ups
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5 min readSep 26, 2022

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For decades cookies have been used to authenticate a user and hold session data. But a simple session cookie has certain limitations and too many attributes to worry about.
How about we talk about a token that not only helps to authenticate but also provide authorization. The token that we shall be discussing is called JWT or JSON Web Token.

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