The JWT Confusion: Why You Are Probably Talking About JWS
History The JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) Working Group was formed in 2011 to standardize signing, encryption, and key representation mechanisms for JSON-based data. This effort resulted in a family of specifications published around 2015 as RFCs: JWS (RFC 7515) - JSON Web Signature JWE (RFC 7516) - JSON Web Encryption JWK (RFC 7517) - JSON Web Key JWA (RFC 7518) - JSON Web Algorithms This led to the creation of JWT (JSON Web Token), standardized as RFC 7519 in 2015. BTW, JWT is actually pronounced “jot”, not J-W-T. ...