Open AccessInsights of JSON Web Token
Author(s) -
Pooja Mahindrakar*,
Uma Pujeri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.f7689.038620
Subject(s) - json , security token , computer science , password , stateless protocol , world wide web , database , login , computer security , network packet
In almost every organization where user sensitive data is available, security and privacy of the data plays a vital role. As far as computer science is concerned, it is just a game of saving data in unrecognizable format and accessible to authorized person. User sensitive data mainly includes passwords which are required for the sessions but need to be handled and stored safely.As storage of these information is overhead in database, Tokens are generated which handles sessions and also self contains user details. One of such widely used stateless token is Json Web Token. This paper deals with the introduction, working and algorithms of Json web token. Also pros, cons, hacking possibilities, Proper usage and security measures of JWT are discussed.