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Comment by cprecioso

In inverse order: - Some people do not like/use the standards he co-wrote

- Cryptography

- JWT is a standard for giving someone a token for them to later do something on your service (and signing them so you can be sure the token's all right when it comes back to you) -- you get a demo at https://jwt.io/

- JWS is the part of JWT that deals with encryption

- COSE is further complications on top of JOSE to fix some of its footguns

- JOSE is the framework for how to use JWT, JWS and related standards, which has some obvious footguns

- shrug

- Yes

parent cprecioso 4 years ago

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