Questions tagged [rs256]
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RS256 vs HS256: What's the difference?
I'm using Auth0 to handle authentication in my web app. I'm using ASP.NET Core v1.0.0 and Angular 2 rc5 and I don't know much about authentication/security in general.
In the Auth0 docs for ASP.NET Core Web Api, there are two choices for the JWT…

Rico Kahler
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Verifying Auth0 JWT throws invalid algorigthm
I have created an Auth0 client, I am logging in and receive this…

Roco CTZ
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Verify JWT Signature (RS256) with public key on client-side, without a server/node.js
we are creating a front-end with react and need to verify a jwt (RS256) signature using a public key.
We have a .pem file which contains the public key like this
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
abc....
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
All examples we found are…

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Understanding RS256 and SHA256 during JWT Token creation
I am creating a JWT Token using a private key in PHP. For this I am using the OpenSSL library.
Before anything I will share my code :
PHP
$header = [
self::ALG => self::RS256,
self::TYP => self::JWT
];
$payload = [
…

arqam
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How do i solve JsonWebTokenError: invalid signature RS256
I have been stuck at JsonWebTokenError: invalid signature while trying to verify it.
The auth middleware where i am verifying
module.exports.authMiddleware = (req, res, next) => {
const tokenParts = req.headers.authorization.split("…

Fun Strike
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Tried to verify JWT signature by myself in nodejs to understand internal working of JWT, but decrypted signature gives wrong value
To understand how digital signatures and JWT work, I tried to verify a JSON Web Token using RS256 algorithm. However, when I decrypt the signature part of a JWT it gives non-string values, so I cannot compare the value with the calculated hash…

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Cannot verify JWT with RS256 - invalid algorithm
I am trying move my JWT Auth from secret phrase to RS256
here is example code:
import fs from 'fs'
import jwt from 'jsonwebtoken'
const private_key = fs.readFileSync('private.key')
const public_key = fs.readFileSync('public.pem')
const token =…

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jwt sign with algorithm RS256 throws "secretOrPrivateKey must be an asymmetric key when using RS256" only the first time it is called?
I created a private and a public keys using these commands = "ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -N '' -P "" -b 4096 -m PEM -f private.key
openssl rsa -in private.key -pubout -outform PEM -out private.key.pub".
Then I used the private key to sign the jwt…

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How to generate a RS256 JWT Token in Karate API testing
How can I generate a sha256-RSA-signed JWT token in a Karate (https://github.com/karatelabs/karate) feature file?
https://github.com/karatelabs/karate/issues/1138#issuecomment-629453412 has a nice recipee for doing such for a HMAC-SHA256 (or…

Holger Joukl
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djangorestframework-simplejwt with auth0 - settings issue?
environment:
django (4.0.4)
rest_framework (3.13.1)
djangorestframework-simplejwt (5.2.0)
What are the exact settings that should be used with simplejwt+auth0?
I cannot find any example and unfortunately i've failed to figure it out by myself.
I…

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How to generate JWT token signed with RS256 algorithm in C#
I have a RSA Private key with me and I have to generate a JWT token using RS256 algorithm.
I started with the below code which was working for "HmacSha256" algorithm
but when i change it to RS256 it throws errors like " IDX10634: Unable to create…

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How to decode a JWT token in python without verifying the signature
I am trying to decode a token in python using
jwt.decode(token, options={'verify_signature': False} ).
I am getting this error though -
self = , jwt = None
def _load(self, jwt):
if…

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How to build a JWT RS256 Algorithm using Python?
How to fix the error "JWT method 'encode' does not exist" when trying to mount a base64 for the assertion parameter of an API?
I'm trying to create a base64 to use as an "assertion" parameter in an API call, but I'm getting an error saying that the…

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getting error while generating JWT signed token for rs256 and rsa private key
My target is generate JWT token using RS256 algorithm using RSA private key. My steps for this:
I have generated a rsa private key using following command:
openssl genrsa -out private_key.pem 2048
after that I write below code to generate JWT…

Fazla Elahi Md Jubayer
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JWT decode requires audience #870
I tried to use the documentation found in here: https://pyjwt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#retrieve-rsa-signing-keys-from-a-jwks-endpoint related to the validation of a JWT token using JWKS but it was not working for me using Keycloak…

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