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Re:Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentic... by tptacek on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:38PM (#16160778)
People write things like "the cryptographic protocol behind JWT is sound" and I always wonder where those assertions come from. Do you just think it must be, because none of the people you talk to say it isn't?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentic... by iovrthoughtthis on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:42PM (#16160826)
More to your original point, why add the complexity before it is required.

Let the complexity of the solutions incrementally grow with the complexity of the the problem being solved.

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