Crate jsonwebtoken

Create and parses JWT (JSON Web Tokens)

Documentation: stable

Modules

• crypto
  Lower level functions, if you want to do something other than JWTs
• errors
  All the errors that can be encountered while encoding/decoding JWTs
• jwk
  This crate contains types only for working JWK and JWK Sets This is only meant to be used to deal with public JWK, not generate ones. Most of the code in this file is taken from https://github.com/lawliet89/biscuit but tweaked to remove the private bits as it’s not the goal for this crate currently.

Structs

• DecodingKey
  All the different kind of keys we can use to decode a JWT. This key can be re-used so make sure you only initialize it once if you can for better performance.
• EncodingKey
  A key to encode a JWT with. Can be a secret, a PEM-encoded key or a DER-encoded key. This key can be re-used so make sure you only initialize it once if you can for better performance.
• Header
  A basic JWT header, the alg defaults to HS256 and typ is automatically set to JWT. All the other fields are optional.
• TokenData
  The return type of a successful call to decode.
• Validation
  Contains the various validations that are applied after decoding a JWT.

Enums

• Algorithm
  The algorithms supported for signing/verifying JWTs

Functions

• decode
  Decode and validate a JWT
• decode_header
  Decode a JWT without any signature verification/validations and return its Header.
• encode
  Encode the header and claims given and sign the payload using the algorithm from the header and the key. If the algorithm given is RSA or EC, the key needs to be in the PEM format.
• get_current_timestamp
  Gets the current timestamp in the format expected by JWTs.