How to create and verify JWT & PASETO token in Golang

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  • uuid

    Go package for UUIDs based on RFC 4122 and DCE 1.1: Authentication and Security Services. (by google)

  • Here I use the UUID type for this field. The type is defined in the google/uuid package, wo we have to run go get command to download and add it to the project.

  • jwt-go

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

  • There might be many different packages, but I think this one is the most popular: https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go. So let’s copy its URL, and run go get in the terminal to install the package:

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  • paseto

    Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens implementation in GO (Golang) (by o1egl)

  • OK, let’s open the browser and search for paseto golang. Open its Github page and copy the URL: https://github.com/o1egl/paseto. Then run go get with this URL to download the package:

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