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jwt(1)

jwt1

Python implementation of json web token

Usage

jwt [options] input

Overview

Encodes or decodes JSON Web Tokens based on input

Options

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-n, --no-verify

ignore signature verification on decode

--key=KEY

set the secret key to sign with

--alg=ALG

set crypto algorithm to sign with. default=HS256

Examples

Decoding:

jwt --key=secret json.web.token

jwt --no-verify json.web.token

Encoding requires the key option and takes space separated key/value pairs separated by equals (=) as input.

Examples:

jwt --key=secret iss=me exp=1302049071

jwt --key=secret foo=bar exp=+10

The exp key is special and can take an offset to current Unix time.

Author

Jeff Lindsay <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Daniele Tricoli <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From python-jwt 1.4.2-1+deb9u1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.