All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
jwt.verify now requires an algorithm parameter, and
jws.createVerify requires an algorithm option. The "alg" field
signature headers is ignored. This mitigates a critical security flaw
in the library which would allow an attacker to generate signatures with
arbitrary contents that would be accepted by jwt.verify. See
https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/
for details.BREAKING: Default payload encoding changed from binary to
utf8. utf8 is a is a more sensible default than binary because
many payloads, as far as I can tell, will contain user-facing
strings that could be in any language. (6b6de48)
Code reorganization, thanks @fearphage! (7880050)
encoding. For those few users
that might be depending on a binary encoding of the messages, this
is for them. (6b6de48)