---
title: "Creating a Spring Security Key for Signing a JWT Token"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-spring-security-key-for-signing-a-jwt-token-wfv9frd7y
source_url: https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/874146302/0/baeldung~Creating-a-Spring-Security-Key-for-Signing-a-JWT-Token
type: article
source: "Baeldung"
published: 2024-03-22T09:23:08.371Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:16:28.624Z
tags: ["java", "authentication", "rest-api", "jwt", "spring-security"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 6
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Creating a Spring Security Key for Signing a JWT Token

**[Baeldung](https://daily.dev/sources/baeldung)** · 5 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to create a Spring Security Key for signing a JWT token in a stateless Spring Boot application. Explore the integration of JWT with Spring Security, the purpose of applying a signature to a JWT token, and how to create a SecretKey instance.

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Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api), [#jwt](https://daily.dev/tags/jwt), [#spring-security](https://daily.dev/tags/spring-security)

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