Should jwt web token be encrypted?

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JWT (RFC7519) is just a compact way to safely transmit claims from an issuer to the audience over HTTP.

JWT can be:

It makes sense to encrypt a JWS if you want to keep sensitive information hidden from the bearer (client) or third parties.

The real questions are: does the audience support JWE? If yes, which algorithms are supported?

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