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Zero dependency JWT encoding/decoding for Node

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    node-jwtutils

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    Zero dependency JWT encoding and decoding for Node.

    Features:

    • Encode and decode any JWT tokens
    • Supported asymmetric algorithmes (RS256, RS384, RS512, ES256, ES384 and ES512)
    • Supported symmetric algorithmes (HS256, HS384 and HS512)
    • Support for multiple issuers and keys per issuer.
    • Import keys from JWK endpoints
    • Easy service authentication for Google and Github
    • Express middleware to validate JWT's

    Background

    Most other JWT implementations tend be complex and have a large array of dependencies because they implement the seldom used JOSE standard. This often makes the whole JWT encoding/decoding complicated and hard to understand, something it really should not be.

    So the focus of this module has been to make a simple, secure, fast and flexible set of utility methods to work with JWT's. The code itself is also easy to understand and less than 200 lines of code, making it much easier to security audit the code.

    Also note doing your own crypto is a bad idea so this module only deals with the encoding/decoding of the JWT, the underlaying crypto operations are done by Node's build-in crypto api that uses openssl.

    While symmetric algorithms are supported for legacy integrations, they are not advisable for production use.

    Samples

    Basic usage

    const { JwtUtils, JwtVerifyError } = require('@connectedcars/jwtutils')
    
    const unixNow = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)
    
    let jwtHeader = {
      typ: 'JWT',
      alg: 'RS256',
      kid: '1'
    }
    
    let jwtBody = {
      aud: 'https://api.domain.tld',
      iss: 'https://jwt.io/',
      sub: 'subject@domain.tld',
      iat: unixNow,
      exp: unixNow + 600,
      scope: ['http://stuff', 'http://stuff2']
    }
    
    // Don't use this key for anything but testing as this is the key from jwt.io
    const pemEncodedPrivateKey =
      '-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n' +
      'MIICWwIBAAKBgQDdlatRjRjogo3WojgGHFHYLugdUWAY9iR3fy4arWNA1KoS8kVw\n' +
      '33cJibXr8bvwUAUparCwlvdbH6dvEOfou0/gCFQsHUfQrSDv+MuSUMAe8jzKE4qW\n' +
      '+jK+xQU9a03GUnKHkkle+Q0pX/g6jXZ7r1/xAK5Do2kQ+X5xK9cipRgEKwIDAQAB\n' +
      'AoGAD+onAtVye4ic7VR7V50DF9bOnwRwNXrARcDhq9LWNRrRGElESYYTQ6EbatXS\n' +
      '3MCyjjX2eMhu/aF5YhXBwkppwxg+EOmXeh+MzL7Zh284OuPbkglAaGhV9bb6/5Cp\n' +
      'uGb1esyPbYW+Ty2PC0GSZfIXkXs76jXAu9TOBvD0ybc2YlkCQQDywg2R/7t3Q2OE\n' +
      '2+yo382CLJdrlSLVROWKwb4tb2PjhY4XAwV8d1vy0RenxTB+K5Mu57uVSTHtrMK0\n' +
      'GAtFr833AkEA6avx20OHo61Yela/4k5kQDtjEf1N0LfI+BcWZtxsS3jDM3i1Hp0K\n' +
      'Su5rsCPb8acJo5RO26gGVrfAsDcIXKC+bQJAZZ2XIpsitLyPpuiMOvBbzPavd4gY\n' +
      '6Z8KWrfYzJoI/Q9FuBo6rKwl4BFoToD7WIUS+hpkagwWiz+6zLoX1dbOZwJACmH5\n' +
      'fSSjAkLRi54PKJ8TFUeOP15h9sQzydI8zJU+upvDEKZsZc/UhT/SySDOxQ4G/523\n' +
      'Y0sz/OZtSWcol/UMgQJALesy++GdvoIDLfJX5GBQpuFgFenRiRDabxrE9MNUZ2aP\n' +
      'FaFp+DyAe+b4nDwuJaW2LURbr8AEZga7oQj0uYxcYw==\n' +
      '-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----'
    
    // let jwt = JwtUtils.encode(pemEncodedPrivateKey, jwtHeader, jwtBody, privateKeyPassword)
    let jwt = JwtUtils.encode(pemEncodedPrivateKey, jwtHeader, jwtBody)
    
    // Don't use this key for anything but testing as this is the key from jwt.io
    const publicKey =
      '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\n' +
      'MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDdlatRjRjogo3WojgGHFHYLugd\n' +
      'UWAY9iR3fy4arWNA1KoS8kVw33cJibXr8bvwUAUparCwlvdbH6dvEOfou0/gCFQs\n' +
      'HUfQrSDv+MuSUMAe8jzKE4qW+jK+xQU9a03GUnKHkkle+Q0pX/g6jXZ7r1/xAK5D\n' +
      'o2kQ+X5xK9cipRgEKwIDAQAB\n' +
      '-----END PUBLIC KEY-----'
    
    const allowedAudinces = ['https://api.domain.tld']
    
    const pubKeys = {
      'https://jwt.io/': {
        '1@RS256': publicKey,
        'default@RS256': publicKey // Will default to this key if the header does not have a kid
      }
    }
    
    try {
      let decodedJwtBody = JwtUtils.decode(jwt, pubKeys, allowedAudinces)
    } catch (e) {
      if (e instanceof JwtVerifyError) {
        // Can be returned to user
      } else {
        // Should not be returned to user
        console.error(e)
      }
    }

    Usage of express middleware

    const express = require('express')
    const { JwtAuthMiddleware, JwtVerifyError } = require('@connectedcars/jwtutils')
    
    // Configuration
    const audiences = ['https://api.domain.tld']
    const pubKeys = {
      'https://jwt.io/': {
        '1@RS256': publicKey // Fx. use key from before
      },
      'https://jwt.io/custom': { // Overwrite default validation for this issuer
        '1@RS256': { // Same options can also be used directly with decode
          publicKey: publicKey,
          expiresMax: 3600, // Don't allow token that has a lifetime over 1 hour
          expiresSkew: 600, // Allow tokens that expired up to 10 minutes ago
          nbfIatSkew: 300, // Allow tokens that has nbf or iat in the future by up to 5 minutes
        }
      }
    }
    
    const app = express()
    
    // Register the middleware
    app.use(JwtAuthMiddleware(pubKeys, audiences, user => { // Also supports Promises and async
      if (user.issuer === 'https://jwt.io/') {
        if (!user.subject.match(/^[^@]+@domain\.tld$/)) {
          throw new JwtVerifyError('Issuer https://jwt.io/ only allowed to have subject ending in @domain.tld')
        }
      }
    }))
    
    // Register an error handler to return 401 errors
    app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
      if (err instanceof JwtVerifyError) {
        if (err.innerError) {
          console.error(`Failed with: ${err.innerError.message}`)
        }
        res.status(401).send(err.message)
      } else {
        res.status(500).send('Unknown error')
      }
    })
    
    app.get('/', (req, res) => {
      res.send(`Hello ${req.user.subject}`)
    })
    app.listen(3000, () => {
      console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!')
    })

    Integration with 3rd parties

    Google Identity platform:

    const { PubkeysHelper } = require('@connectedcars/jwtutils')
    
    // Fetch with Google's public keys every hour
    const applyGoogleKeys = (pubKeys) => {
      PubkeysHelper.fetchJwkKeys('https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs')
        .then(keys => {
          pubKeys['https://accounts.google.com'] = keys
        })
        .catch(e => {
          // Do some error handling
          console.log(e)
        })
    }
    
    applyGoogleKeys(pubKeys)
    setInterval(() => {
      applyGoogleKeys(pubKeys)
    }, 60 * 60 * 1000)

    Usage of service authentication (Google and Github)

    const { JwtServiceAuth } = require('./index')
    const fs = require('fs')
    const r2 = require('r2')
    
    // Wrap your favorite http library
    let httpRequestHandler = async (method, url, headers, body) => { // Fx. POST, http://domain.tld, {}, "..."
      // Do http request
      let httpRespone = await r2[method.toLowerCase()](url, { headers, body }).response
      let data = await httpResponse.arrayBuffer()
      return {
        statusCode: httpResponse.status,
        data: data,
        headers: httpResponse.headers
      }
    })
    
    let jwtServiceAuth = new JwtServiceAuth(httpRequestHandler) // Or use the built-in default
    
    let gitHubAppPrivateKey = fs.readFileSync("user-appname.2017-01-01.private-key.pem", 'utf8')
    let googleServiceAccountKeyfile = fs.readFileSync("user-serviceaccount-12345678.json", 'utf8')
    
    async function getAccessTokens() {
      let githubAppToken = await = jwtServiceAuth.getGithubAccessToken(gitHubAppPrivateKey, 1, 1)
      let googleToken = await jwtServiceAuth.getGoogleAccessToken(googleServiceAccountKeyfile)
    }

    Documentation

    Generate own keypair

    Generate private RSA key:

    # Here the key is encrypted with aes256
    openssl genrsa -aes256 -out private.pem 2048

    Generate public key from private key:

    openssl rsa -in private.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out public.pem

    Command line helper utils

    NOTE: Does not support nested JSON

    Load private key:

    jwtencode private.pem

    Copy/paste to stdin (Ctrl-D to end), the password line is only needed if the private key is encrypted:

    password password-for-private-key
    {
      "alg": "RS256",
      "typ": "JWT",
      "kid": "1"
    }
    {
      "iss": "jwt.io",
      "aud": "https://api.domain.tld",
      "sub": "subject@domain.tld",
      "iat": 1504292127,
      "nbf": 1504292127,
      "exp": 1598986470
    }
    jwtdecode public.pem 1 RS256 https://jwt.io localhost

    Copy/paste to stdin (Ctrl-D to end):

    eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCIsImtpZCI6IjEifQ.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2p3dC5pbyIsImF1ZCI6ImxvY2FsaG9zdCIsInN1YiI6InN1YmplY3RAZG9tYWluLnRsZCIsImlhdCI6MTUwNDI5MjEyNywibmJmIjoxNTA0MjkyMTI3LCJleHAiOjE1OTg5ODY0NzB9.0L5AWwUF3EleBqnQ6V0Lqa36jCccP4A7cAFHHIY1b-oE7pxCoFr8gnAOrlc16N0WUPI6O17JT79kQIPR-LjFm-BgBycBw4eEFYb8z7iXA-zqgQz4ajZXlIljJtJUBbTupbnzEiBKjEFnTxYqb-vUm-TDwTMPaYzBxqqfOrrvKlw