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>The only reason you don't see this said all the time in 2023 is that it was settled years ago.

Was it? If it was settled, we wouldn't keep seeing these kinds of debates.

>Cryptography engineers hate JWT.

Appeal to authority. I'm sure that they hate plenty of other things too, doesn't make their opinions or emotions automatically correct.

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It is indeed an appeal to authority. And, if you read the comment again, you'll see that you're agreeing with me: hearing that JWT is bad surprised the previous commenter precisely because we've stopped having meaningful discussions about whether JWT is good; it isn't, the case is closed, there's not much more to talk about.

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