panva/jose
Jose
jose is a cryptography library for signing, encrypting, and verifying tokens and messages using the JSON Object Signing and Encryption standards. It provides a toolkit for the implementation of JSON Web Tokens, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption.
The library serves as a high-level interface for the Web Crypto API, allowing for the generation, import, and export of symmetric secrets and asymmetric key pairs. It handles the encryption and decryption of web messages and the validation of digital signatures to ensure data integrity and identity.
Its capabilities cover cryptographic key management, stateless token validation, and the encoding of JSON objects into compact, URL-safe serialization formats. It processes various JSON syntaxes to support industry specifications for secure data exchange.
Features
- JSON Web Tokens - Provides a full implementation of the JSON Web Token (JWT) standard for identity and resource security.
- Cryptographic Key Management - Provides utilities for generating, importing, and exporting symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic keys.
- Key Encoding Standards - Implements the JSON Web Key (JWK) standard for representing cryptographic keys in a portable format.
- JSON Web Encryption - Implements the JWE standard to ensure privacy and confidentiality of web messages.
- JSON Web Signatures - Implements the JWS standard for creating and validating digital signatures on JSON payloads.
- Web Crypto API Integrations - Utilizes the native Web Crypto API for secure, hardware-backed cryptographic operations in Node.js and browsers.
- Stateless Token Validation - Provides local verification of digital signatures to validate tokens without server-side session state.
- Cryptography Libraries - Acts as a specialized cryptography library for signing and encrypting JSON-based tokens.
- Compact Serialization - Provides the specialized encoding required for transporting JSON tokens in HTTP headers.
- Authentication & Authorization - Zero-dependency library for JWT, JWS, and JWE.
