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+PHP-JWT
+=======
+
+A simple library to encode and decode JSON Web Tokens (JWT) in PHP. Should
+conform to the [current spec](http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-06)
+
+Example
+-------
+
+    <?php
+      include_once 'JWT.php';
+
+      $key = "example_key";
+      $token = array(
+        "iss" => "http://example.org",
+        "aud" => "http://example.com",
+        "iat" => 1356999524,
+        "nbf" => 1357000000
+      );
+
+      $jwt = JWT::encode($token, $key);
+      $decoded = JWT::decode($jwt, $key);
+
+      print_r($decoded);
+    ?>
+
+License
+-------
+[3-Clause BSD](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause).