JWT Creation and Verification

This example shows how to create RS512 keys and use them to create and verify JWT tokens.

First install pyjwt via:

pip install pyjwt

and ensure you have at least Python 3.5.

Then generate keys by running:

bash keygen.sh <keyname>

where <keyname> has .key at the end of it, like test.key. This creates a private and public key in the same directory.

Then run:

python pyjwt_example.py <private keyname> <public keyname>

It will print the JWT, the original message, and the decoded message. You can and should also verify your JWT token on a site like https://jwt.io/.