DEF CON 26 CRYPTO AND PRIVACY VILLAGE - Scott Arciszewski - No Way JOSE! Designing Cryptography

If you like video consumption, a DEFCON 2018 talk by the author Scott Arciszewski on this same topic can be found here: No Way JOSE! Designing Cryptography: link to this video You're welcome :) Edit: Clarify that Scott is the author of both post and video.

I've been doing a similar thing recently. I found PASETO to be interesting ( link ), which is a lot like JWT but is simpler and more opinionated (e.g. there is no plaintext option; symmetric and asymmetric operations are cleanly separated; etc.). I especially enjoyed watching this video link to this video I still decided to go with JWT, since PASETO isn't yet standard and its software hasn't been around for long, but it definitely helped me understand more about the choice I was making. In particular, PASETO distinguishes between "local" tokens (producer and consumer can both use the same symmetric key) versus "public" tokens (producer and consumer can't use the same key, e.g. third party services ru…

Blog post: link DEFCON CPV talk: link + link to this video Alternative design that isn't radioactive: link Apologies if this wasn't more readily available or commonly known. I'm worse at marketing than I am at engineering.