diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 19bcc31e2..8389c357d 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -65,13 +65,16 @@ GOV.UK Notify provides an API that allows you to create text and email notificat There are two ways to integrate the API into your service: -* use one of the client libraries provided by GOV.UK Notify: + GOV.UK Notify uses [JSON Web Tokens (JWT)](https://jwt.io/) for authentication and identification. The GOV.UK Notify client libraries encode and decode JSON Web Tokens when making requests to the GOV.UK Notify API. If you don’t use one of these libraries, you must manually create tokens yourself.