https://www.bradcypert.com/tags/jwt/ Recent content in Jwt on BradCypert.com Hugo en-us Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:25:45 -0500 https://www.bradcypert.com/using-json-web-tokens-with-clojure/ Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bradcypert.com/using-json-web-tokens-with-clojure/ <p>Authentication is easy. Good authentication is difficult. We’re at a point in the world where our users expect to be able to sign up for your service or app, and receive a more personalized experience. If you can’t validate who the user is, you can’t achieve this.</p> <p>In the past, people have leveraged sessions, cookies, sending the user’s email and password on each request (<strong>please don’t ever do this</strong>), and many other techniques to validate that a user is who they say they are. A lot of these techniques worked relatively well for the time, but they all have their flaws – Cookies expire and are tied the browser, Sessions don’t scale well, sending email/password on every request violates your user’s trust in you to keep their information secure.</p>