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Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided by tptacek on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:03PM (#13869875)
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.
Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided by tracker1 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:26PM (#13870114)
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.
Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided by yuhong on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:12AM (#13874569)
And I think JWT is more flawed than SSL/TLS.