How to use a jwt.io provisioned token with jwcrypto?

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I am trying to use a jwt.io generated JWT within my python code using jwcrypto with some success. I am saying some success because I am able to retrieve the claims (the wrong way) without validating the signature.

Here’s my code

from jwcrypto import jwt, jwk

jwtIoToken = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4fwpMeJf36POk6yJV_adQssw5c'

theJwt = jwt.JWT(jwt=jwtIoToken)
print(theJwt)
print(theJwt.token.objects)

The jwtIoToken value is taken verbatim from the jwt.io. I was expecting to be able to just do a theJwt.claims but it is set to None. My hunch is that I need to validate the signature, but I have no idea how to do it without the key for which I have no clue what jwt.io is using.

Asked By: George

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Answer 1

You can find the key that jwt.io uses in the right column under "VERIFY SIGNATURE".
Unless you add anything different, the default value is "your-256-bit-secret".

When you use that value, you can verify the signature with the code below.

jwcrypto is a bit more complicated to use than pyjwt. Here you first have to initialize a JWK object and create the key from the given secret and then pass the key to the verify(key)-function:

from jwcrypto import jws, jwk

jwtIoToken = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4fwpMeJf36POk6yJV_adQssw5c'
key = jwk.JWK().from_password("your-256-bit-secret")

jwstoken = jws.JWS()
jwstoken.deserialize(jwtIoToken)
jwstoken.verify(key)
payload = jwstoken.payload

print(payload.decode())

Answered By: jps

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