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A JWT can be symmetrically signed by a shared secret using the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/authentication-with-jwt-for-your-website-rqrgdzb4u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RQrgdzb4u.png og:image:alt: Authentication with JWT for your website og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Authentication with JWT for your website **[asayer](https://daily.dev/sources/asayer)** · 14 min read · 58 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JWT is a stateless authentication mechanism popularly used as a client-side stateless session. A JWT can be symmetrically signed by a shared secret using the HMAC algorithm. While SAML tokens can use public/private key pairs like JWTs like JWT, the signing algorithm could be HMAC SHA256 or RSA. JWT has some recommendations for JWT developers. For more information about JWT and the signing algorithms. The JWT will be available on the JWT to help users and other services. For example, you can find out how to use JWT in a website and use a JWT on a site and use the J WT on a website. The signature is created by taking the encoded header, the encoded payload, ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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