JWT Authentication with RSA with Django

Diana Darie
6 min readOct 30, 2018

Topics covered:

  • JWT Structure and how it works
  • JWT User Authentication using HS256
  • JWT User Authentication using RSA
  • JWT User Refresh Token

Before starting…where do we want to get?

The scenario we will try to implement consists of building a django-rest-framework API…

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