January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
10h 34m
English
We need to transfer information between microservices securely. The requests must be verified and signed digitally, where the applications verify the authenticity of the requests and respond to them.
We need to have a compact way to handle this information in the REST or HTTP world since the information is required to be sent with each request. JWT is one of the options here. JWT (JSON web tokens) is an open web standard that helps to securely transfer information between parties (applications). JWT will be signed using a secret, based on the HMAC algorithm, or with a public/private key. They are compact and self-contained:
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