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- JWT signing using HMAC, RSA and Elliptic Curve support
HS256,HS384,HS512,RS256,RS384,RS512,ES256,ES384,ES512
- JWT signing using RSA-PSS signatures
PS256,PS384,PS512- Requires Java 8 update 251 or greater, or any version that includes support RSASSA-PSS
- https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8146293
- Available in versions >= 3.5.0
- Modular crypto provider so you can drop in support for BC FIPS or other JCE security providers.
- PEM decoding / encoding
- Decode PEM files to PrivateKey or PublicKey
- Decode private EC keys un-encapsulated in PKCS#8, returned PEM will be in PKCS#8 form.
- Both public and private keys will be returned when encoded in the private PEM
- Encode PrivateKey or PublicKey to PEM
- Decode PEM files to PrivateKey or PublicKey
- JSON Web Key
- Build JWK from Private Key
- Build JWK from Public Key
- Build JWK from PEM
- Parse public keys from a JSON Web Key
- Retrieve JWK from JWKS endpoints
- Helpers
- Generate RSA Key Pairs in
2048,3072or4096bit sizes - Generate EC Key Pairs in
256,384and521bit sizes - Generate
x5tandx5t#256values from X.509 Certificates - Generate JWK thumbprint using
SHA-1orSHA-256 - Generate ideal HMAC secret lengths for
SHA-256,SHA-384andSHA-512 - Generate the
at_hashandc_hashclaims for OpenID Connect
- Generate RSA Key Pairs in
<dependency>
<groupId>io.fusionauth</groupId>
<artifactId>fusionauth-jwt</artifactId>
<version>5.3.3</version>
</dependency>implementation 'io.fusionauth:fusionauth-jwt:5.3.3'implementation("io.fusionauth:fusionauth-jwt:5.3.3")dependency(id: "io.fusionauth:fusionauth-jwt:5.3.3")For others see https://search.maven.org.
// Build an HMAC signer using a SHA-256 hash
Signer signer = HMACSigner.newSHA256Signer("too many secrets");
// Build a new JWT with an issuer(iss), issued at(iat), subject(sub) and expiration(exp)
JWT jwt = new JWT().setIssuer("www.acme.com")
.setIssuedAt(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC))
.setSubject("f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3")
.setExpiration(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC).plusMinutes(60));
// Sign and encode the JWT to a JSON string representation
String encodedJWT = JWT.getEncoder().encode(jwt, signer);A higher strength hash can be used by changing the signer. The encoding and decoding steps are not affected.
// Build an HMAC signer using a SHA-384 hash
Signer signer384 = HMACSigner.newSHA384Signer("too many secrets");
// Build an HMAC signer using a SHA-512 hash
Signer signer512 = HMACSigner.newSHA512Signer("too many secrets");// Build an HMC verifier using the same secret that was used to sign the JWT
Verifier verifier = HMACVerifier.newVerifier("too many secrets");
// Verify and decode the encoded string JWT to a rich object
JWT jwt = JWT.getDecoder().decode(encodedJWT, verifier);
// Assert the subject of the JWT is as expected
assertEquals(jwt.subject, "f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3");// Build an RSA signer using a SHA-256 hash. A signer may also be built using the PrivateKey object.
Signer signer = RSASigner.newSHA256Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))));
// Build a new JWT with an issuer(iss), issued at(iat), subject(sub) and expiration(exp)
JWT jwt = new JWT().setIssuer("www.acme.com")
.setIssuedAt(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC))
.setSubject("f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3")
.setExpiration(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC).plusMinutes(60));
// Sign and encode the JWT to a JSON string representation
String encodedJWT = JWT.getEncoder().encode(jwt, signer);A higher strength hash can be used by changing the signer. The encoding and decoding steps are not affected.
// Build an RSA signer using a SHA-384 hash
Signer signer = RSASigner.newSHA384Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))));
// Build an RSA signer using a SHA5124 hash
Signer signer = RSASigner.newSHA512Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))));// Build an RSA verifier using an RSA Public Key. A verifier may also be built using the PublicKey object.
Verifier verifier = RSAVerifier.newVerifier(Paths.get("public_key.pem"));
// Verify and decode the encoded string JWT to a rich object
JWT jwt = JWT.getDecoder().decode(encodedJWT, verifier);
// Assert the subject of the JWT is as expected
assertEquals(jwt.subject, "f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3");// Build an EC signer using a SHA-256 hash. A signer may also be built using the PrivateKey object.
Signer signer = ECSigner.newSHA256Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))));
// Build a new JWT with an issuer(iss), issued at(iat), subject(sub) and expiration(exp)
JWT jwt = new JWT().setIssuer("www.acme.com")
.setIssuedAt(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC))
.setSubject("f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3")
.setExpiration(ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC).plusMinutes(60));
// Sign and encode the JWT to a JSON string representation
String encodedJWT = JWT.getEncoder().encode(jwt, signer);A higher strength hash can be used by changing the signer. The encoding and decoding steps are not affected.
// Build an EC signer using a SHA-384 hash
Signer signer = ECSigner.newSHA384Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))));
// Build an EC signer using a SHA-512 hash
Signer signer = ECSigner.newSHA512Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))));// Build an EC verifier using an EC Public Key. A verifier may also be built using the PublicKey object.
Verifier verifier = ECVerifier.newVerifier(Paths.get("public_key.pem"));
// Verify and decode the encoded string JWT to a rich object
JWT jwt = JWT.getDecoder().decode(encodedJWT, verifier);
// Assert the subject of the JWT is as expected
assertEquals(jwt.subject, "f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3");// Build an EC verifier using an EC Public Key
Verifier verifier = ECVerifier.newVerifier(Paths.get("public_key.pem"));
// Verify and decode the encoded string JWT to a rich object and allow up to 60 seconds
// of clock skew when asserting the 'exp' and 'nbf' claims if they exist.
JWT jwt = JWT.getDecoder().withClockSkew(60).decode(encodedJWT, verifier);
// Assert the subject of the JWT is as expected
assertEquals(jwt.subject, "f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3");In a scenario where you may have a hard coded JWT in a test case that you wish to validate, you may use the time machine JWT decoder. Ideally you would not hard code JWTs in your tests and instead generate a new one each time so that the JWT would pass the expiration check. If this is not possible, this option is provided.
// Build an EC verifier using an EC Public Key
Verifier verifier = ECVerifier.newVerifier(Paths.get("public_key.pem"));
// Using the time machine decoder, you may adjust 'now' to any point in the past, or future.
// Note, this is only provided for testing, and should not be used in production.
ZonedDateTime thePast = ZonedDateTime.of(2019, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, ZoneOffset.UTC)
JWT jwt = JWT.getTimeMachineDecoder(thePast).decode(encodedJWT, verifier);
// Assert the subject of the JWT is as expected
assertEquals(jwt.subject, "f1e33ab3-027f-47c5-bb07-8dd8ab37a2d3");This pattern is available on the HMAC, RSA and EC verifier and signers.
// Build and EC signer using a BC Fips ready Crypto Provider
Signer signer = ECSigner.newSHA256Signer(new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("private_key.pem"))), new BCFIPSCryptoProvider());
// Build an EC verifier using a BC Fips ready Crypto Provider
Verifier verifier = ECVerifier.newVerifier(Paths.get("public_key.pem"), new BCFIPSCryptoProvider());// Retrieve JSON Web Keys using a known JWKS endpoint
// - You may optionally provide a HttpURLConnection to this method instead of a string if you want to build your own connection.
List<JSONWebKey> keys = JSONWebKeySetHelper.retrieveKeysFromJWKS("https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs");
// Retrieve JSON Web Keys using a well known OpenID Connect configuration endpoint
// - You may optionally provide a HttpURLConnection to this method instead of a string if you want to build your own connection.
List<JSONWebKey> keys = JSONWebKeySetHelper.retrieveKeysFromWellKnownConfiguration("https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration");
// Retrieve JSON Web Keys using an OpenID Connect issuer endpoint
List<JSONWebKey> keys = JSONWebKeySetHelper.retrieveKeysFromIssuer("https://accounts.google.com");JSONWebKey jwk = JSONWebKey.build(publicKey);
String json = jwk.toJSON();{
"e": "AQAB",
"kty": "RSA",
"n": "Auchby3lZKHbiAZrTkJh79hJvgC3W7STSS4y6UZEhhxx3m3W2hD8qCyw6BEyrciPpwou-vmeDN7qBSk2QKqTTjlg5Pkf8O4z8d9HAlBTUDg4p98qLFOF2EFWWTiFbQwAP2qODOIv9WCAM2rkXEPwGiF962XAoOwiSmldeDu7Uo5A-bnTi0z3oNu4qm_48kv90o9CMiELszE9jsfoH32WE71HDqhsRjVNddDJ81e5zxBN8UEmaR-gmWqa63laON2KANPugJP7PrYJ_PC9ilQfV3F1rDpqbvlFQkshohJ39VrVpEtSRmJ12nqTFuspXLApekOyic3J9jo6ZI7o3IdQmy3bpnJIT_U",
"use": "sig"
}{
"e": "AQAB",
"kty": "RSA",
"n": "Auchby3lZKHbiAZrTkJh79hJvgC3W7STSS4y6UZEhhxx3m3W2hD8qCyw6BEyrciPpwou-vmeDN7qBSk2QKqTTjlg5Pkf8O4z8d9HAlBTUDg4p98qLFOF2EFWWTiFbQwAP2qODOIv9WCAM2rkXEPwGiF962XAoOwiSmldeDu7Uo5A-bnTi0z3oNu4qm_48kv90o9CMiELszE9jsfoH32WE71HDqhsRjVNddDJ81e5zxBN8UEmaR-gmWqa63laON2KANPugJP7PrYJ_PC9ilQfV3F1rDpqbvlFQkshohJ39VrVpEtSRmJ12nqTFuspXLApekOyic3J9jo6ZI7o3IdQmy3bpnJIT_U",
"use": "sig"
}String json = { ... example above ... }
byte[] bytes = json.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
JSONWebKey jwk = Mapper.deserialize(bytes, JSONWebKey.class);
PublicKey publicKey = JSONWebKey.parse(jwk);JSONWebKey jwk = JSONWebKey.build(privateKey);
String json = jwk.toJSON();{
"p": "9dy6wUxA0eOHopUP-E5QjDzuW8rXdaQMR566oDJ1qL0iD0koQAB9X3hboB-2Rru0aATu6WDW-jd4mgtYnXO8ow",
"kty": "RSA",
"q": "6Nfc6c8meTRkVRAHCF24LB5GLfsjoMB0tOeEO9w9Ous1a4o-D24bAePMUImAp3woFoNDRfWtlNktOqLel5Pjew",
"d": "C0G3QGI6OQ6tvbCNYGCqq043YI_8MiBl7C5dqbGZmx1ewdJBhMNJPStuckhskURaDwk4-8VBW9SlvcfSJJrnZhgFMjOYSSsBtPGBIMIdM5eSKbenCCjO8Tg0BUh_xa3CHST1W4RQ5rFXadZ9AeNtaGcWj2acmXNO3DVETXAX3x0",
"e": "AQAB",
"use": "sig",
"qi": "XLE5O360x-MhsdFXx8Vwz4304-MJg-oGSJXCK_ZWYOB_FGXFRTfebxCsSYi0YwJo-oNu96bvZCuMplzRI1liZw",
"dp": "32QGgDmjr9GX3N6p2wh1YWa_gMHmUSqUScLseUA_7eijeNYU70pCoCtAvVXzDYPhoJ3S4lQuIL2kI_tpMe8GFw",
"dq": "21tJjqeN-k-mWhCwX2xTbpTSzsyy4uWMzUTy6aXxtUkTWY2yK70yClS-Df2MS70G0za0MPtjnUAAgSYhB7HWcw",
"n": "359ZykLITko_McOOKAtpJRVkjS5itwZxzjQidW2X6tBEOYCH4LZbwfj8fGGvlUtzpyuwnYuIlNX8TvZLTenOk45pphXr5PMCMKi7YZgkhd6_t_oeHnXY-4bnDLF1r9OUFKwj6C-mFFM-woKc-62tuK6QJiuc-5bFfn9wRL15K1E"
}JSONWebKey jwk = JSONWebKey.build(privateKey)
.add("boom", "goes the dynamite")
.add("more", "cowbell");
String json = jwk.toJSON();{
"alg" : "ES256",
"boom" : "goes the dynamite",
"crv" : "P-256",
"kty" : "EC",
"more" : "cowbell",
"use" : "sig",
"x" : "NIWpsIea0qzB22S0utDG8dGFYqEInv9C7ZgZuKtwjno",
"y" : "iVFFtTgiInz_fjh-n1YqbibnUb2vtBZFs3wPpQw3mc0"
}$ mvn install$ sb intNote: If you do not yet have Savant build tool installed, use the following instructions.
mkdir ~/savant
cd ~/savant
wget http://savant.inversoft.org/org/savantbuild/savant-core/2.0.0-RC.6/savant-2.0.0-RC.6.tar.gz
tar xvfz savant-2.0.0-RC.6.tar.gz
ln -s ./savant-2.0.0-RC.6 current
export PATH=$PATH:~/savant/current/bin/For more information, checkout savantbuild.org.
