Option B per user decision: production ships with empty Jwt.Issuer /
Jwt.Audience in appsettings.json so the API process refuses to start
unless JWT_ISSUER + JWT_AUDIENCE env vars are supplied. Development
ships with grep-friendly DEV-ONLY- placeholders so local + docker
flows keep working unchanged.
AuthenticationServiceCollectionExtensions flips ValidateIssuer +
ValidateAudience to true and wires ValidIssuer / ValidAudience via a
new ResolveRequiredOrThrow helper that all three required values
(secret, iss, aud) now share. JwtTokenFactory.Create + CreateExpired
gain optional iss / aud parameters (default null) so existing call
sites compile unchanged. JwtTestHelpers adds MintAuthenticated /
MintExpired wrappers that resolve iss + aud from env, plus
ResolveIssuerOrThrow / ResolveAudienceOrThrow. PerfBootstrap.MintToken
+ Program.cs JWT bootstrap migrated to the new surface so the perf
harness and the integration runner both validate against the same
contract.
Adds 4 fail-fast unit tests (missing/empty issuer + audience), 2
negative integration scenarios (WrongIssuer_Returns401,
WrongAudience_Returns401), and re-tags every existing integration
mint site via MintAuthenticated.
Compose, .env.example, run-tests.sh, run-performance-tests.sh all
load + export JWT_ISSUER + JWT_AUDIENCE alongside JWT_SECRET.
Resolves F-AUTH-2 (security_report.md + owasp_review.md). AC-7
(cross-repo suite/_docs/10_auth.md write) deferred — outside this
workspace; tracked in deploy_cycle2.md R3 follow-up.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Oleksandr Bezdieniezhnykh