Crate jsonwebtoken [−] [src]

Create and parses JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

Documentation: stable

Modules

All the errors, generated using error-chain

Header	A basic JWT header, the alg defaults to HS256 and typ is automatically set to `JWT`. All the other fields are optional.
Validation	Contains the various validations that are applied after decoding a token.

The algorithms supported for signing/verifying

decode	Decode a token into a struct containing 2 fields: `claims` and `header`.
encode	Encode the header and claims given and sign the payload using the algorithm from the header and the key
sign	Take the payload of a JWT, sign it using the algorithm given and return the base64 url safe encoded of the result.
verify	Compares the signature given with a re-computed signature for HMAC or using the public key for RSA.