Re:Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT
by lvh on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:15PM
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> There are only two hard things in computer science … cache invalidation is one of them.
I mean, it's a pithy saying, but TTL invalidation is a problem you have to solve with JWT too. Caching tokens is the easiest possible cache invalidation problem: definitionally, you know a priori exactly when the token is invalid.
I mean, it's a pithy saying, but TTL invalidation is a problem you have to solve with JWT too. Caching tokens is the easiest possible cache invalidation problem: definitionally, you know a priori exactly when the token is invalid.