A ruby implementation of the RFC 7516 JSON Web Encryption (JWE) standard.

gem install jwe

This example uses the default alg and enc methods (RSA-OAEP and A128CBC-HS256). It requires an RSA key.

require 'jwe'

key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate(2048)
payload = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

encrypted = JWE.encrypt(payload, key)
puts encrypted

plaintext = JWE.decrypt(encrypted, key)
puts plaintext #"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This example uses a custom enc method:

require 'jwe'

key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate(2048)
payload = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

encrypted = JWE.encrypt(payload, key, enc: 'A192GCM')
puts encrypted

plaintext = JWE.decrypt(encrypted, key)
puts plaintext #"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This example uses the 'dir' alg method. It requires an encryption key of the correct size for the enc method

require 'jwe'

key = SecureRandom.random_bytes(32)
payload = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

encrypted = JWE.encrypt(payload, key, alg: 'dir')
puts encrypted

plaintext = JWE.decrypt(encrypted, key)
puts plaintext #"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This example uses the DEFLATE algorithm on the plaintext to reduce the result size.

require 'jwe'

key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate(2048)
payload = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

encrypted = JWE.encrypt(payload, key, zip: 'DEF')
puts encrypted

plaintext = JWE.decrypt(encrypted, key)
puts plaintext #"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This example sets an extra plaintext custom header.

require 'jwe'

key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate(2048)
payload = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

# In this case we add a copyright line to the headers (it can be anything you like
# just remember it is plaintext).
encrypted = JWE.encrypt(payload, key, copyright: 'This is my stuff! All rights reserved')
puts encrypted

The RFC 7518 JSON Web Algorithms (JWA) spec defines the algorithms for encryption and key management to be supported by a JWE implementation.

Only a subset of these algorithms is implemented in this gem. Striked elements are not available:

Key management:

• RSA1_5
• RSA-OAEP (default)
• RSA-OAEP-256
• A128KW
• A192KW
• A256KW
• dir
• ECDH-ES
• ECDH-ES+A128KW
• ECDH-ES+A192KW
• ECDH-ES+A256KW
• A128GCMKW
• A192GCMKW
• A256GCMKW
• PBES2-HS256+A128KW
• PBES2-HS384+A192KW
• PBES2-HS512+A256KW

Encryption:

• A128CBC-HS256 (default)
• A192CBC-HS384
• A256CBC-HS512
• A128GCM
• A192GCM
• A256GCM

The MIT License

• Copyright © 2016 Francesco Boffa

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