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Add information in docs about djangorestframework-simplejwt package
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docs/api-guide/authentication.md

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## JSON Web Token Authentication
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JSON Web Token is a fairly new standard which can be used for token-based authentication. Unlike the built-in TokenAuthentication scheme, JWT Authentication doesn't need to use a database to validate a token. [Blimp][blimp] maintains the [djangorestframework-jwt][djangorestframework-jwt] package which provides a JWT Authentication class as well as a mechanism for clients to obtain a JWT given the username and password.
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JSON Web Token is a fairly new standard which can be used for token-based authentication. Unlike the built-in TokenAuthentication scheme, JWT Authentication doesn't need to use a database to validate a token. [Blimp][blimp] maintains the [djangorestframework-jwt][djangorestframework-jwt] package which provides a JWT Authentication class as well as a mechanism for clients to obtain a JWT given the username and password. An alternative package for JWT authentication is [djangorestframework-simplejwt][djangorestframework-simplejwt] which provides different features as well as a pluggable token blacklist app.
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## Hawk HTTP Authentication
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[doac-rest-framework]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software/doac/blob/master/docs/integrations.md#
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[blimp]: https://github.com/GetBlimp
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[djangorestframework-jwt]: https://github.com/GetBlimp/django-rest-framework-jwt
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[djangorestframework-simplejwt]: https://github.com/davesque/django-rest-framework-simplejwt
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[etoccalino]: https://github.com/etoccalino/
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[djangorestframework-httpsignature]: https://github.com/etoccalino/django-rest-framework-httpsignature
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[amazon-http-signature]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html

docs/topics/third-party-packages.md

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* [django-oauth-toolkit][django-oauth-toolkit] - Provides OAuth 2.0 support.
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* [doac][doac] - Provides OAuth 2.0 support.
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* [djangorestframework-jwt][djangorestframework-jwt] - Provides JSON Web Token Authentication support.
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* [djangorestframework-simplejwt][djangorestframework-simplejwt] - An alternative package that provides JSON Web Token Authentication support.
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* [hawkrest][hawkrest] - Provides Hawk HTTP Authorization.
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* [djangorestframework-httpsignature][djangorestframework-httpsignature] - Provides an easy to use HTTP Signature Authentication mechanism.
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* [djoser][djoser] - Provides a set of views to handle basic actions such as registration, login, logout, password reset and account activation.
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[django-oauth-toolkit]: https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit
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[doac]: https://github.com/Rediker-Software/doac
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[djangorestframework-jwt]: https://github.com/GetBlimp/django-rest-framework-jwt
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[djangorestframework-simplejwt]: https://github.com/davesque/django-rest-framework-simplejwt
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[hawkrest]: https://github.com/kumar303/hawkrest
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[djangorestframework-httpsignature]: https://github.com/etoccalino/django-rest-framework-httpsignature
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[djoser]: https://github.com/sunscrapers/djoser

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