Though many of the concepts in this course are still relevant, overall this course does not reflect our current course standards.

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The "JSON Web Token Basics" Lesson is part of the full, Secure Authentication for Web Apps & APIs Using JWTs course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:

A JSON Web Token, or JWT, is an open standard for transferring data securely between two parties in a JSON payload. JWTs are digitally signed and a great mechanism for implementing stateless authentication.

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