golang-jwt/jwt

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Go library for creating, signing, parsing, and verifying JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) per RFC 7519. It is the community-maintained successor to dgrijalva/jwt-go, supporting HMAC, RSA, RSA-PSS, ECDSA, and EdDSA signing algorithms.

Use cases

• issue and sign JWTs in a Go web service
• validate Bearer tokens for OAuth 2.0 authentication
• parse and verify JWT claims in middleware
• sign tokens with Ed25519 or ECDSA keys
• migrate from the deprecated dgrijalva/jwt-go library

When to choose

• you need JWT support in a Go application
• you want a well-maintained, community-backed fork of jwt-go
• you need flexible signing algorithms including EdDSA
• you need strict token validation controls

When to avoid

• you need full JOSE features like JWE encryption (this library only does JWS signing)
• you are not working in Go
• you need a complete identity provider or OAuth server rather than a token library

Facets

library · maturity stable

auth cryptography serialization security security backend developer-tools apis go cross-platform jwt json-web-tokens oauth2 bearer-tokens ed25519 token-signing token-validation rfc7519

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