---
title: "Using Azure Key Vault for signing and encrypting JSON Web Tokens"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-azure-key-vault-for-signing-and-encrypting-json-web-tokens-hi1yyut0f
source_url: https://joonasw.net/view/using-azure-key-vault-for-signing-and-encrypting-json-web-tokens
type: article
source: "Discover .NET"
published: 2024-02-20T16:26:11.359Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:58:27.770Z
tags: ["security", "azure", "encryption", "jwt"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Using Azure Key Vault for signing and encrypting JSON Web Tokens

**[Discover .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/discdot)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post explores how to sign and encrypt JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) using Azure Key Vault keys and certificates. It also discusses key rotation and performance optimizations for cryptographic operations.

## Full article

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption), [#jwt](https://daily.dev/tags/jwt)

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