The document discusses JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), which can be used for authentication and authorization in applications. JWTs consist of JSON objects that are used to share security information between parties as a JSON Web Token. They can contain claims about an entity (e.g. user) and are signed to protect the claims from being altered. The document provides examples of using JWTs to authorize API requests by encoding, transmitting, and verifying JWTs on the client and server side.