How To Build JWT's in Go

Written by wagslane | Published 2020/02/24
Tech Story Tags: cryptography | education | golang | programming | security | tutorial | jwt | authorization

TLDR JWT's are encoded JSON objects that have been signed by the server, verifying authenticity. JWTs are one of the most popular ways to handle authentication on API requests. In this article, we go over the basics of JWT and how to implement a secure authentication strategy in Go. We are going to use a popular library for dealing with JWT's in Go, jwt-go, jWT-go. We will use a symmetric encryption scheme and use a private key to verify the JWT.via the TL;DR App

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Written by wagslane | Founder of Boot.dev. Whining about coding sins since 2011. Committing coding sins for the same.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/02/24