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# Authenticating with a Credentials File
The 2.0 version of NATS server introduced the idea of decentralized authentication based on [JSON Web Tokens \(JWT\)](https://jwt.io/). Clients interact with this new scheme using a [user JWT](../../nats-server/configuration/securing_nats/auth_intro/jwt_auth.md) and corresponding [NKey](../../nats-server/configuration/securing_nats/auth_intro/nkey_auth.md) private key. To help make connecting with a JWT easier, the client libraries support the concept of a credentials file. This file contains both the private key and the JWT and can be generated with the `nsc` [tool](../../nats-tools/nsc/README.md). The contents will look like the following and should be protected because it contains a private key. This credentials file is unused and only for example purposes.
The 2.0 version of NATS server introduced the idea of decentralized authentication based on [JSON Web Tokens \(JWT\)](https://jwt.io/). Clients interact with this new scheme using a [user JWT](../../nats-server/configuration/securing_nats/jwt/README.md) and corresponding [NKey](../../nats-server/configuration/securing_nats/auth_intro/nkey_auth.md) private key. To help make connecting with a JWT easier, the client libraries support the concept of a credentials file. This file contains both the private key and the JWT and can be generated with the `nsc` [tool](../../nats-tools/nsc/README.md). The contents will look like the following and should be protected because it contains a private key. This credentials file is unused and only for example purposes.
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-----BEGIN NATS USER JWT-----