jwt Getting started with jwt Signed JWT (JWS)

Example

A signed JWT includes a Base64 Url Safe encoded signature as the third component. The algorithm used to generate the signature is indicated in the header.

eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9
.eyJzdWIiOiJKb2huIERvZSIsImFkbWluIjp0cnVlLCJpYXQiOjE0NzAzNTM5OTQsImV4cCI6MTQ3MDM1NzYyNywianRpIjoiNmU0MDRiYTgtZjg4NS00ZDVmLWJmYTItZTNmNWEwODM4MGE0In0
.7CfBdVP4uKsb0cogYepCvMLm8rcpjBYW1XZzA-a5e44

Header

{
  "typ": "JWT",
  "alg": "HS256"
}

This JWT was signed with the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm, hence alg: HS256.

Payload

{
  "sub": "John Doe",
  "admin": true,
  "iat": 1470353994,
  "exp": 1470357627,
  "jti": "6e404ba8-f885-4d5f-bfa2-e3f5a08380a4"
}

This JWT can be verified with the UTF-8 secret notsosecret.