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

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 JWT expect