JWT is designed to be used with OAuth and openID Connect.

There is a IETF WG being created to standardize the signing and encryption for 
JWT and other JSON tokens.

John B.

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On 2011-08-31, at 7:48 PM, Brian Campbell wrote:

> JWT is definitely not at odds with OAuth.  I guess you could say JWT
> is potentially complementary in a number of ways (they can be used
> together but don't need to be).  Though I'm not aware
> of any spec work around it, I suspect many will chose to use JWT as a
> bearer access token format.  JWTs can also be used as an OAuth grant
> type [1] which is based on similar functionality for SAML tokens [2].
> 
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-oauth-jwt-bearer
> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Justin Karneges <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 02:05:58 PM George Fletcher wrote:
>>> You could also use a signed JWT returned by the resource owner (web
>>> site) to be presented to the resource server (widget provider) that the
>>> resource server can validate (e.g. verify the signature). The JWT can
>>> contain scopes, expiry time, etc as needed. If the widget provider needs
>>> to access services at the resource owner, the JWT can contain an
>>> appropriate access_token for the user.
>> 
>> Interesting, I was not aware of JSON Web Tokens until now.  Is there a
>> relationship to OAuth?  Are they at odds or serve different purposes?
>> 
>> Justin
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