[CASSSIDECAR-160] Add JWT Authentication support in Sidecar

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Rest API
• Change Category: Performance
• Complexity: Normal
• Assignee: Saranya Krishnakumar
• Reporter: Saranya Krishnakumar
• Created: 15/Nov/24 05:24
• Updated: 19/Nov/24 18:20

Description

Sidecar currently supports Mutual TLS certificate based authentication. In addition we should also support JWT token based authentication in Sidecar. JWT token based authentication is widely adopted and is one of the standard approaches for securing APIs.