JSON Web Tokens: A web standard you may not know

Join us August 8th as we shine a light on web security. We’ll have three speakers helping us deconstruct JSON Web Tokens. Zach Taylor from Shift Interactive, will give us an introduction. Nicholas Starke form ^lift security will walk us through his experience with JSON Web Token implementation. And, our good friend Nate Rauh will get us up and running with JSON web tokens in a hands on project.

Bring your computers, or just your ideas and let’s have fun. We’ll meet by 6:30 at the Forge in downtown Des Moines next to the sculpture garden. To help us properly size our pizza and beer order, please RSVP early.

See you then.

An Introduction to JSON Web Tokens:
Speakers

Zach Talyor

Nicholas Starke

Nate Rauh (Pirate)

Just incase you can’t wait until the second Monday of August when we have our regularly scheduled Web Geeks event, here is some information on JSON Web Tokens:

” JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This information can be verified and trusted because it is digitally signed. JWTs can be signed using a secret (with the HMAC algorithm) or a public/private key pair using RSA. ” read more…

When:

Mon, Aug 8th @ 6:30pm

Where:

the Forge
The Forge is located at 1420 Locust above Magnolia Wine Kitchen, and across from the Sculpture Park. Enter through the door on the parking lot side of the building, next to Magnolia Wine Kitchen's outdoor patio. Once inside head up the stairs.