Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
by tptacek on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:03PM
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No, almost everybody in the field laments SSL and TLS. It's probably too late at this point --- and has been for well over a decade --- to get to something better than TLS, and so TLS 1.3 is what we're stuck with. But that is demonstrably not the case with JWT. We don't have to convince all the browser vendor to upgrade out of JWT in lockstep. Avoiding another 20 years of hair-on-fire crypto vulnerabilities seems reason enough to lobby against that spec.
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But any given algorithm today may not be sufficient tomorrow... so we just don't use ANY encryption? JWT is a perfectly valid structure.. there are options as to signing, so use/limit as needed.