Replace HMAC with ED25519 in examples #310
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While HMAC remains relatively popular in some contexts, it's generally considered as insecure, especially in untrustworthy environments, as it's easy for the verifier to forge the JWT token. OWASP, for example, recommends using signature algorithms instead of HMAC.
Since ED25519 is state-of-the-art among signature schemes, this PR adds it to the examples. This is to ensure that the examples are "secure by default". As a result, users have less chances of using weak algorithms when they blindly copy the examples.
Though, I didn't touch the
hmac_example_test.go
, so if user really need HMAC tokens, they can explicitly go the corresponding examples.