Unfortunately, some have used "JWS" to refer to JOSE, because that's all they personally used. JOSE is the standard. JWS is a subset. Same with JWK, JWE, JWT

Unfortunately, some have used "JWS" to refer to JOSE, because that's all they personally used. JOSE is the standard. JWS is a subset. Same with JWK, JWE, JWT, ect... It's all JOSE. Here's an example from three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783303 I think lately I've been seeing people use more correct terminology with JOSE.