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JWT
JWT: JSON Web Token: a signed, base64url-encoded token carrying claims such as audience, issuer and permissions. Entra access and ID tokens are JWTs.
Posts that use this term
- Introducing Admin Lens: errors explained right where you see them 18 Oct 2026
- How a Tube gate gets paid: half a second at the edge, the maths in the back office 10 Oct 2026
- Road to 50: how this blog runs for about £1 a month 8 Oct 2026
- Configurable token lifetimes are GA: when to shorten them (and when not to) 29 Apr 2026
- Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure without storing a single secret 21 Jan 2026
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