I made some contributions to one of the open source java implementations(https://bitbucket.org/nimbusds/nimbus-jose-jwt https://bitbucket.org/nimbusds/nimbus-jo

I made some contributions to one of the open source java implementations(https://bitbucket.org/nimbusds/nimbus-jose-jwt https://bitbucket.org/nimbusds/nimbus-jose-jwt) and I believe the encrypted form of JWTs are referred to as JWEs. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption-40 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encrypt...