Tokens, passwords & IDs
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5 articlesA readable JWT payload is not an accepted login token
Build a verification decision from a trusted key, expected issuer and audience, expiry and the algorithm policy.
No breach match is evidence about a corpus, not a password guarantee
Understand range-query disclosure, known-corpus limits and the practical response to a matching password.
An unpredictable UUID is still an identifier, not access control
Check UUIDv4 version and randomness while keeping resource identifiers separate from authorisation decisions.
The password rule changed. Keep length, randomness and storage in the plan
Generate unique credentials around real service restrictions and a password-manager workflow.
A reset token needs a lifetime and a storage rule as well as random bytes
Plan entropy, encoding, verifier storage, single use and expiry for application tokens.
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