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JWT Authentication, Explained by Actually Running One (No Setup)
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (597+ words) Decode a real JWT, exploit alg: none in 30 seconds, and learn exactly what to test in your own auth " all in your browser against a live sandbox Most JWT tutorials show you a diagram and call it a day. This…...
"One JWT, five services, and the python-jose audience list trap"
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (783+ words) audience must be a string or None. That was the exception python-jose threw the moment our unified MCP server tried to talk to the second backend behind it. The token was valid. The signature checked out. The claims were correct....
822 K Downloads at Risk: Malicious node-ipc Versions Spotted Stealing AWS and Private Keys
3+ day, 46+ min ago (351+ words) Bitcoin News 822 K Downloads at Risk: Malicious node-ipc Versions Spotted Stealing AWS and Private Keys Three malicious versions of node-ipc, a foundational Node. js library used across Web3 build pipelines, were confirmed compromised on May 14, with security firm Slowmist warning that…...
Most Auth Tools Give You Users and Sessions. HVT Gives You Something Better.
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (308+ words) Firebase Auth is the easiest to get started with, which is exactly why so many teams default to it. But it is a Google product, closed-source, and there is no self-hosted option. Your user data sits on Google's infrastructure permanently....
Spring Boot JWT Authentication: The Complete Setup Most Tutorials Get Wrong
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (242+ words) I've read probably forty Spring Boot JWT tutorials over the years. They all show you the same thing: .. . Tagged with java, springboot, security, tutorial....
Beyond Localhost: Implementing Production-Grade Entra ID Auth in. NET Aspire
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (409+ words) We've all been there. You spend two days wiring up authentication for a distributed project. It works. .. Tagged with dotnet, csharp, azure, aspire....
ACT 0. 7: sessions, three production bridges, and auth-via-args
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (396+ words) The previous posts focused on what ACT is " sandboxed components, one binary per transport, capability ceilings. This one is about a thing that was missing: state. ACT 0. 7 fixes that. Stateful components now opt into a small new WIT interface, act:…...
"I Thought Adding Google-Style OAuth to My Local AI Gateway Would Take One Evening"
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (762+ words) I thought adding another account type to my local AI gateway would be a small job. Open the browser. Get the OAuth code. Exchange it for tokens. Save the account. Done. That was the theory. In practice, wiring Antigravity into…...
I Built openapi-mcp-gateway: Multi-Spec Open API-to-MCP With Real OAuth2 In Python
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (187+ words) A Python gateway for MCP that does multi-spec mounting, real per-user OAuth2 token relay, and works with the Fast API app you already have. Tagged with mcp, openapi, python, opensource....
Sessions vs JWT vs Cookies: Understanding Authentication Approaches
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (706+ words) Hello readers ", welcome to the 15th blog in our Node. js series! In our previous posts, we built a REST API, learned how to protect routes with JWT, and explored middleware and file uploads. Authentication has come up several times, but…...