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Clarify compact serialization is for JSON-based JWPs
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dwaite committed Oct 20, 2024
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## Compact Serialization {#CompactSerialization}

The compact serialiation provides a space-efficient encoding of a JWP in URL-safe characters. In addition to the alphabet of unpadded BASE64 URL-safe encoding, it uses the "." and "~" characters as separators.
The compact serialiation provides a JSON-based, space-efficient encoding of a JWP in URL-safe characters. In addition to the alphabet of unpadded BASE64 URL-safe encoding, it uses the "." and "~" characters as separators.

The Protected Header MUST be JSON-formatted for Compact Serialization. This includes both headers sets in presented form.

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