What's in a JWT (Json Web Token)?
If you ended up on this article, chances are that you have been seeing JWTs (Json Web Tokens) for a while and you are curious to find out what they really are, what’s inside of them and how they actually work! Why did they get so mainstream anyway?! 🤔 In this article we will be trying to address this topic in a short but (hopefully) effective fashion! It’s just a string with a well-defined format JWT stands for JSON Web Token and such a token is just a string composed by 3 parts: a header a body…
How to crack a JWT token: two articles about distributed computing, ZeroMQ & Node.js
In the last 2 weeks I add the pleasure to release an article (in two parts) in collaboration with RisingStack, one of the most famous companies in the Node.js ecosystem. The article explains how to build a distributed application using Node.js and ZeroMQ and provides an example that I believe it’s very actual and interesting: a JWT token cracker. If you are into Node.js, ZeroMQ, security or distributed application you can read the two articles in the community section of RisingStack. ZeroMQ & Node.js…