What is the use of the checkbox at jwt.io Debugger?

karl.heng · October 22, 2020, 7:03am

Hi all,
This is a really basic question but I cannot find any explanation after searching around. There is a checkbox beside “secret base64 encoded” when I select HS256 algorithm. Can you explain its use?
Thanks.

konrad.sopala · October 22, 2020, 11:48am

Hey there!

Can you share with me a screenshot of where you have it? Thank you!

Beezlabs · October 22, 2020, 12:37pm

I believe this is it

konrad.sopala · October 22, 2020, 12:48pm

Thanks! Let me research our docs a bit as I didn’t have that much experience with this part of our stack. I’ll get back to you as soon as I have something to share!

karl.heng · October 22, 2020, 3:33pm

Thanks in advance

konrad.sopala · October 27, 2020, 3:36pm

Hey there!

Sorry for the delay in response.

It will encode the secret used by the HS algorithm as base64 before passing it to the signing algorithm instead of passing it as plain text

karl.heng · October 28, 2020, 3:08pm

Many thanks Konrad for the response. I shall analyze it further,

konrad.sopala · October 28, 2020, 4:04pm

No worries! Here for you!

system · November 12, 2020, 4:04pm

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