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by motorest 435 days ago
> If there is a deny list, and you have multiple services, you either do need to sync it or have a service fully responsible for this, and this does come with the burden of dealing with consistency guarantees (...)

No. Revocation is typically implemented as a shortcut to token expiration. Token expiration involves a grace period. The goal is to arbitrarily reject a long-lived token before it's expiration.

> (...) like if a service is dealing with very sensitive data.

No. That's why single-user tokens are used.