Merge pull request #819 from github/jwt

Add JWT topic

Author: leereilly

topics/jwt/index.md

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+---
+aliases: rfc-7519
+created_by: M. Jones, J. Bradley, N. Sakimura
+display_name: JSON Web Tokens
+released: May 2015
+short_description: JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.
+topic: jwt
+related: json, jwt-token, jwt-tokens, jwt-auth
+url: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7519
+wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token
+---
+JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.  The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is used as the payload of a JSON Web Signature (JWS) structure or as the plaintext of a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) structure, enabling the claims to be digitally signed or integrity protected with a Message Authentication Code (MAC) and/or encrypted.