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How JWT Works: Tokens, Claims, and Signatures
Take a JSON Web Token apart segment by segment, build a signer and verifier with nothing but node:crypto, then run the alg:none and RS256-to-HS256 key-confusion attacks against both your own code and jose@6.2.8 to see exactly which one still forges an admin token.
AdminAugust 6, 202611 min read

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