JWT

JWT

Challenges in Designing Software Architectures for Web-Based Biomedical Signal Analysis

Published in Aboul Ella Hassanien, Nilanjan Dey, Surekha Borra, Medical Big Data and Internet of Medical Things, 2018

Alan Jovic, Kresimir Jozic, Davor Kukolja, Kresimir Friganovic, Mario Cifrek

Arguably, the most popular token-based authentication technology nowadays is JWT – JSON Web Tokens [85]. JWT are used for securely representing claims between two parties. Representation is in the form HEADER.DATA.SIGNATURE. The header describes the token type and encryption algorithm. Data is user data that is protected by JWT. The signature contains header and user data signed by the encryption algorithm, for example:

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Published in Connection Science, 2022

Catalin Negru, George Musat, Madalin Colezea, Constantin Anghel, Alexandru Dumitrascu, Florin Pop, Carmen De Maio, Aniello Castiglione

The implementation details of the authentication and the data flow of it will be presented in a following chapter. Although any kind of token cam be used for stateless authentication, our implementation is based on the JSON Web Token technology (JWT) which become a standard de facto for doing this. JWT is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties (Jones et al., 2015). The structure of a JWT can be seen in Figure 5. It is composed of three sections separated by a dot. The first section is the header and it is a JSON which have two claims, one for describing the algorithm used and other for specifying the type of JWT. The second section is the payload, which contains a JSON with the actual data. The third sections are the signature. All three sections are base64 encoded.

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