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You either reissue tokens constantly, every couple minutes or so, or you have to reliably invalidate.


Maybe you do. Why would I have to do that?


Because it's bad to ship products where a compromised token can never be recovered from. Revocation is the essential hard problem in authentication/authorization.


I guess I just can't see the actual path here. How does a token get compromised in a way the victim finds out before the attacker makes ample use of the compromised token? From my pov, when the token gets compromised, you've lost already.

Note the auth systems I create usually do not process payment info and contain very little personal information (an email). I still think I'm fine without revocation mechanisms.




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