Information Exchange: JWTs are a good way of securely transmitting information between parties because they can be signed , which means you can be sure that the senders are who they say they are. Additionally, the structure of a JWT allows you to verify that the content hasn’t been tampered with.
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The tokens are designed to be compact, URL-safe, and usable especially in a web-browser single-sign-on (SSO) context. JWT claims can typically be used to pass identity of authenticated users between an identity provider and a service provider, or any other type of claims as required by business processes .
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To authenticate a user, a client application must send a JSON Web Token (JWT) in the authorization header of the HTTP request to your backend API . API Gateway validates the token on behalf of your API, so you don’t have to add any code in your API to process the authentication.
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