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by polymeris 2188 days ago
That's the thing, JWT is not an authentication protocol, that's just one (the most frequent) use-case of "transfering claims". The footguns, e.g. the choice of encrypted or not, or symmetric or asymmetric crypto, are a result of the flexbility required to cover the other use-cases. Maybe what's needed is a subset of JWT that's just for AuthN.