- Integrated JWT Bearer authentication for API security.
- Replaced previous CookieAuthenticationDefaults with JwtBearerDefaults as the default authentication scheme.
- Configured JWT token validation with issuer, audience, and signing key parameters.
- Added handling for token retrieval from cookies or query strings when missing in the header.
- Updated the authentication configuration to support both Cookie and JWT authentication schemes.
- Enhanced security by validating JWT tokens against provided public keys.