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Updated jwt policy docs with new algorithm option #336

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### Description

The JWT policy can verify requests containing HS256 or RS256 signed JSON Web Tokens (as specified in
The JWT policy can verify requests containing HS256, HS384, HS512, RS256, RS384, or RS512 signed JSON Web Tokens (as specified in
[RFC 7519][rfc-jwt])

Each of your Consumers will have JWT credentials (public and secret keys) which must be used to sign their JWTs.
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- determines whether the gateway should execute the successive policy in case the auth process fails. If set to false,
the gateway will return an `Unauthorized` response.
- default value: `false`
* `algorithms`:
- If defined, will limit valid JWT's to only those signed with specified algorithms.
- If undefined policy will decode JWT and use algorithm in header to verify.


[rfc-jwt]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519
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