sivakspt / ObjectiveC-JOSE

Objective-C Library for creating JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signature and JSON Web Encryption (JWE)

ObjectiveC-JOSE

Library for creating JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signature and JSON Web Encryption (JWE)

Why?

I couldn’t find any objective-c implementations of the JOSE draft standards. This way annoying so I decided to quickly create a library to handle all the logic for me.

I intend to use this together with Socket.io (and the handily objc-socket.io library) to use JWT for authentication.

Currently Implemented

• Create a JWS (signed but unencrypted)
• Supports all public header fields in standard

Usage

Not ready for use yet, it does the basic job of creating and sig

Useful References

http://odino.org/securing-your-http-api-with-javascript-object-signing-and-encryption/

http://jose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Okq845p76ZoJ:popdevelop.com/2013/12/decode-json-web-token-jwt-in-ios-objective-c/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=hk

RFCs (still in draft stage as at July 2014)

JSON Web Token

JSON Web Signature