An Introduction to PASETO Tokens - Randall Degges

JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) have become ubiquitous in the web authentication landscape over the last four years. In this talk, I'll introduce you to their successor: PASETO tokens (platform-agnostic security tokens).PASETO takes the best parts of the JWT spec and removes the rest. PASETO is a much simpler, more secure, and easier-to-use version of the JWT spec that makes cryptographers happy and reduces risk for developers like you.In this talk, you'll learn what PASETO tokens are, how they work, and how to use them in your applications.

Our speaker is Randall Degges. Randall runs Developer Relations & Community at Snyk where he works on security research, development, and education. In his spare time, Randall writes articles and gives talks advocating for security best practices. Randall also builds and contributes to various open-source security tools.Randall's realms of expertise include Python, JavaScript, and Go development, web security, cryptography, and infrastructure security. Randall has been writing software for over 20 years and has built a number of popular API services and open source tools.

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