How do you validate access token from Active Directory with Go?

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  • microsoft-authentication-library-for-go

    The MSAL library for Go is part of the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly named Azure AD) v2.0. It enables you to acquire security tokens to call protected APIs. It uses industry standard OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.

  • Perhaps what you're looking for is MSAL (GitHub) or go-autorest (GitHub)?

  • jwt-go

    Discontinued ARCHIVE - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This project is now maintained at:

  • I'm assuming the token you're referring to is the JWT token from AD. You can use this library to validate it - https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go

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