JWT

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

BySecumantra May 25, 2020June 13, 2022

OAuth 2.0 is very popular today and there is also a lot of confusion about OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect. In this post we will understand what problem OAuth 2.0 solves and how it is different from OpenID Connect. Lets start with revisiting some basic concepts and then develop our understanding about OAuth by trying…

Application Security

JWT – Everything you need to know!

BySecumantra May 5, 2020July 14, 2021

Welcome to Secumantra! In this post, we are going to understand what exactly is JWT and why JWTs are so popular in web applications these days. So let’s get started – Introduction and Purpose JWT stands for JSON Web Token and mainly used in OAuth workflows. These tokens are kind of protected data structures and…