Ten Years of JSON Web Token (JWT) and Preparing for the Future – Mike Jones: self-issued
Ten years ago this week, in May 2015, the JSON Web Token (JWT) became RFC 7519. This was the culmination of a 4.5 year journey to create a simple JSON-based security token format and underlying JSON-based cryptographic standards. The full set of RFCs published together was:
RFC 7515: JSON Web Signature (JWS)
RFC 7516: JSON Web Encryption (JWE)
RFC 7517: JSON Web Key (JWK)
RFC 7518: JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)
RFC 7519: JSON Web Token (JWT)
RFC 7520: Examples of Protecting Content Using JSO...
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