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Issue JWT's instead of random strings for token auth #19

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lserman opened this issue Jul 5, 2016 · 0 comments
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Issue JWT's instead of random strings for token auth #19

lserman opened this issue Jul 5, 2016 · 0 comments

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lserman commented Jul 5, 2016

JWTs are basically strictly better than tokens. We can bake some important information into the token like the expiration time so that clients can stay ahead and refresh the token as frequently as they'd like. I don't see a downside to it.
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