
Episode 376: Justin Richer On API Security with OAuth 2
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RFC - The Jot Specification
The Jot specification was designed as a way to communicate information about what's been delegated from the authorization server to the resource server. The downside of this is you're carrying all of that information inside the JSON web token. So when the token shows up, it can carry a signature. And the token itself can tell me like, yeah, this is for this set of APIs and this set of actions at these API within this time window for this specific user.
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