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Construct Messages Using JSON Web Tokens

Follow these steps to construct messages using JWTs:
  1. Generate a hash of the message body. See Generate a Hash of the Message Body.
    1. Optional: Encrypt the message. See Message-Level Encryption Using JSON Web Tokens.
  2. Populate the header values. See Generate the Token Header.
  3. Generate a hash of the claim set. See Generate a Hash of the Claim Set.
  4. Generate a hash of the token header. See Generate a Hash of the Token Header.
  5. Generate a token signature hash. See Generate a Token Signature.
  6. Populate the
    signature
     header field. See Generate a JSON Web Token.
  7. Create the JWT header. See Create the Authorization Header.