How does JWT authentication work?

In short, JWTs are used as a secure way to authenticate users and share information. Typically, a private key, or secret, is used by the issuer to sign the JWT. The receiver of the JWT will verify the signature to ensure that the token hasn’t been altered after it was signed by the issuer.

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Can I Decode JWT token?

JWTs can be either signed, encrypted or both. If a token is signed, but not encrypted, everyone can read its contents , but when you don’t know the private key, you can’t change it. Otherwise, the receiver will notice that the signature won’t match anymore.

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How do I access my JWT token?

To request an access token, send a POST request containing the JWT to the DocuSign authentication service . Must be urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer . The encoded value of the JWT that you created in the previous step. If successful, an access token will be returned in the response body.

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