The “aud” (audience) claim identifies the recipients that the JWT is intended for . Each principal intended to process the JWT MUST identify itself with a value in the audience claim.
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JSON web tokens (JWTs) claims are pieces of information asserted about a subject . For example, an ID token (which is always a JWT) can contain a claim called name that asserts that the name of the user authenticating is “John Doe”.
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The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed and optionally encrypted . Encryption for JWTs is described in a separate companion specification. The suggested pronunciation of JWT is the same as the English word “jot”.4 Oca 2011
Read moreIs JWT a Bearer Token?
In essence, a JSON Web Token (JWT) is a bearer token . It’s a particular implementation which has been specified and standardised. JWT in particular uses cryptography to encode a timestamp and some other parameters.
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The most common way of accessing OAuth 2.0 APIs is using a “Bearer Token”. This is a single string which acts as the authentication of the API request, sent in an HTTP “Authorization” header . The string is meaningless to clients using it, and may be of varying lengths.
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JWTs are a convenient way to encode and verify claims. A Bearer token is just string, potentially arbitrary, that is used for authorization .
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Bearer Tokens are the predominant type of access token used with OAuth 2.0. A Bearer Token is an opaque string, not intended to have any meaning to clients using it . Some servers will issue tokens that are a short string of hexadecimal characters, while others may use structured tokens such as JSON Web Tokens.
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