Developer Guides
What Is a JWT? How to Read One Without Trusting It
A JWT isn't encrypted: anyone can decode it. We take one token apart by hand, explain its claims and signature, and cover the checks a server must make.
Posts tagged “Base64”
Security & Privacy
Hashing vs Encryption vs Encoding: The Difference
Encoding can be reversed by anyone, hashing can't be reversed at all, and encryption needs a key. Here's one message run through all three, and how to choose.
Developer Guides
What Is Base64 Encoding (and Why Is It 33% Bigger)?
Base64 rewrites any bytes using 64 safe text characters. Here's how the encoding works, where the extra third comes from, and where you'll run into it.