sovrin / jted

just JWT en-/decoding

jted

just JWT en-/decoding

Installation

$ npm i jted

Usage

import {encode} from 'jted';

const payload = {
    foo: 'bar';
    user: 'John Doe',
    role: 'moderator'
};

const key = 'change me to a very secure key';

// create token with payload and key
const token = encode(payload, key);

API

• encode
• decode
• verify

encode(payload: Payload, key: string, algorithm: Algorithm = 'sha512', options?: Options): string

Create a JWT via the payload, key, algorithm and optional options.

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decode(token: string, key: string, algorithm: Algorithm = null, validate: boolean = true): Payload

Retrieve the payload by decoding token with key and algorithm.

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verify(input: string, key: string, algorithm: Algorithm, signature: string): boolean

Verify if provided token is legit.

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Supported algorithms

• sha256
• sha384
• sha512
• RSA-SHA256

Todo

• check nodejs support for other algorithms

Licence

Apache-2.0 License, see LICENSE