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What is JWT? How does it work?

Introduction to JWT JWT, or JSON Web Token, is an open standard(RFC 7519) set of claims to share security information or authorization/authentication requests between a client and a server. Each JWT contains encoded JSON objects. JWTs are signed using a cryptographic algorithm by the token’s issuer to ensure that No one could alter the claims after the token is issued and later can be used by the receiving party to verify the token.

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