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JWT vs. PASETO: why security teams are retiring JSON Web Tokens
How algorithm negotiation and ciphersuite confusion create critical security vulnerabilities in JWTs, and how PASETO v4 enforces modern cryptographic safety by default.
The engineering questions you get asked, and the bugs you actually hit. Drawn, one mechanism at a time, in the order the videos ship.
How algorithm negotiation and ciphersuite confusion create critical security vulnerabilities in JWTs, and how PASETO v4 enforces modern cryptographic safety by default.
A bearer token can't be recalled, so the only way to bound the damage is to bound the time. Everything else — the split, the 401, the rotation — falls out of that one sentence.
One is a pointer, the other is a copy. Almost every argument about them comes from missing that one line.