go/jwt/jwt_signer.go

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package jwt

// Signer is the interface for signing JWTs.
// See RFC 7519 and RFC 7515. Security guarantees: similar to tink.Signer.
type Signer interface {
	// Computes a signature, and encodes the JWT and the signature in the JWS compact serialization format.
	SignAndEncode(rawJWT *RawJWT) (string, error)
}