JWS

acronym

cryptographysecurity

Stands for: JSON Web Signature

A standard for signing data represented as JSON.

JSON Web Signature (RFC 7515) defines how to sign a payload and encode the signature compactly. It underlies signed JWTs; notably its 'none' algorithm, meant for unsecured tokens, is a classic source of verification bugs.

Also known as: jws

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