@openchainlabs/axes

The @openchainlabs/axes library allows you to sign and verify JSON Web Tokens (JWT) using ES256K and EdDSA algorithms. The non-standard ES256K-R is also supported for backward compatibility reasons, as well as the Ed25519 legacy name for EdDSA.

Public keys are resolved using the Decentralized ID (DID) of the signing identity of the token, which is passed as the iss attribute of the JWT payload.

DID methods

All DID methods that can be resolved using the did-resolver interface are supported for verification.

If your DID method requires a different signing algorithm than what is already supported, please create an issue.

Installation

npm install @openchainlabs/axes

or if you use yarn

yarn add @openchainlabs/axes

Example

1. Create a @openchainlabs/axes

In practice, you must secure the key passed to ES256KSigner. The key provided in code below is for informational purposes only.

import didJWT from '@openchainlabs/axes';

const signer = didJWT.ES256KSigner(didJWT.hexToBytes('278a5de700e29faae8e40e366ec5012b5ec63d36ec77e8a2417154cc1d25383f'))

let jwt = await didJWT.createJWT(
  { aud: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74', iat: undefined, name: 'uPort Developer' },
  { issuer: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74', signer },
  { alg: 'ES256K' }
)
console.log(jwt)

2. Decode a @openchainlabs/axes

Try decoding the JWT. You can also do this using jwt.io

//pass the jwt from step 1
let decoded = didJWT.decodeJWT(jwt)
console.log(decoded)

Once decoded a @openchainlabs/axes will resemble:

expect(decoded).toEqual({
  header: { alg: 'ES256K', typ: 'JWT' },
  payload: {
    aud: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74',
    name: 'uPort Developer',
    iss: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74'
  },
  signature: 'mAhpAnw-9u57hyAaDufj2GPMbmuZyPDlU7aYSUMKk7P_9_cF3iLk-hFjFhb5xaUQB5nXYrciw6ZJ2RSAZI-IDQ',
  data: 'eyJhbGciOiJFUzI1NksiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QifQ.eyJhdWQiOiJkaWQ6ZXRocjoweGYzYmVhYzMwYzQ5OGQ5ZTI2ODY1ZjM0ZmNhYTU3ZGJiOTM1YjBkNzQiLCJuYW1lIjoidVBvcnQgRGV2ZWxvcGVyIiwiaXNzIjoiZGlkOmV0aHI6MHhmM2JlYWMzMGM0OThkOWUyNjg2NWYzNGZjYWE1N2RiYjkzNWIwZDc0In0'
})

3. Verify a @openchainlabs/axes

You need to provide a did-resolver for the verify function. For this example we will use did:ethr, but there are other methods available. For more information on configuring the Resolver object please see did-resolver

npm install ethr-did-resolver

import {Resolver} from 'did-resolver';
import {getResolver} from 'ethr-did-resolver'

let resolver = new Resolver({...getResolver({infuraProjectId: '<get a free ID from infura.io>'})});

// use the JWT from step 1
let verificationResponse = await didJWT.verifyJWT(jwt, {
  resolver,
  audience: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74'
})
console.log(verificationResponse)

A verification response is an object resembling:

expect(verificationResponse).toEqual({
  payload: {
    aud: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74',
    name: 'uPort Developer',
    iss: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74'
  },
  didResolutionResult: {
    didDocumentMetadata: {},
    didResolutionMetadata: { contentType: 'application/did+ld+json' },
    didDocument: {
      '@context': [
        'https://www.w3.org/ns/did/v1',
        'https://w3id.org/security/suites/secp256k1recovery-2020/v2'
      ],
      id: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74',
      verificationMethod: [
        {
          id: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74#controller',
          type: 'EcdsaSecp256k1RecoveryMethod2020',
          controller: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74',
          blockchainAccountId: 'eip155:1:0xF3beAC30C498D9E26865F34fCAa57dBB935b0D74'
        }
      ],
      authentication: [
        'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74#controller'
      ],
      assertionMethod: [
        'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74#controller'
      ]
    }
  },
  issuer: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74',
  signer: {
    id: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74#controller',
    type: 'EcdsaSecp256k1RecoveryMethod2020',
    controller: 'did:ethr:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74',
    blockchainAccountId: 'eip155:1:0xF3beAC30C498D9E26865F34fCAa57dBB935b0D74'
  },
  jwt: 'eyJhbGciOiJFUzI1NksiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QifQ.eyJhdWQiOiJkaWQ6ZXRocjoweGYzYmVhYzMwYzQ5OGQ5ZTI2ODY1ZjM0ZmNhYTU3ZGJiOTM1YjBkNzQiLCJuYW1lIjoidVBvcnQgRGV2ZWxvcGVyIiwiaXNzIjoiZGlkOmV0aHI6MHhmM2JlYWMzMGM0OThkOWUyNjg2NWYzNGZjYWE1N2RiYjkzNWIwZDc0In0.mAhpAnw-9u57hyAaDufj2GPMbmuZyPDlU7aYSUMKk7P_9_cF3iLk-hFjFhb5xaUQB5nXYrciw6ZJ2RSAZI-IDQ',
  policies: {}
})