JWT, JWS, JWE, JWK, and JWA Implementations

OpenID Connect uses the JSON Web Token (JWT) and JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) specifications. Libraries implementing JWT and the JOSE specs JWS, JWE, JWK, and JWA are listed here.

cjose

  • C JOSE library
  • License: MIT
  • Supports: JWS, JWE, and JWK
  • Target Environment: C/C++

JsonWebToken DelegatingHandler for ASP.NET WebAPI

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  • License: MIT
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment: ASP.NET WebAPI

 

JSON Web Token Handler For the Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5

  • This package provides an assembly containing classes which extend the .NET Framework 4.5 with the necessary logic to process the JSON Web Token (JWT) format.
  • License: Microsoft Software License
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment: .Net Framework 4.5

 

JWT (JSON Web Token) implementation for .NET 3.5+

 

Microsoft.Owin.Security.Jwt

  • Middleware that enables an application to protect and validate JSON Web Tokens.
  • License: Microsoft Software License
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment: OWIN

 

OWIN Authentication Middleware for Auth0 JWT Bearer Token

  • License:
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment: OWIN

Haskell jose-jwt package

jose4j

  • Open source implementation of JWT and the full JOSE suite. Developed by Brian Campbell.
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Supports: JWT, JWS, JWE and JWK.
  • Target Environment: Java 7 or 8

 

Nimbus JOSE+JWT

  • Nimbus JOSE+JWT is an open source (Apache 2.0) Java library that implements the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) spec suite and the closely related JSON Web Token (JWT) spec. Developed by Connect2id.
  • License: Apache 2.0
    Supports: JWS, JWE, JWT
    Target Environment: Java 6, 7 or 8

 

Java JWT

  • a simple project to decode JSON Web Tokens in Java
  • License:
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment:

 

Resteasy

  • description:
  • License:
  • Supports:
  • Target Environment: JBOSS

 

Apache Oltu – JOSE

  • Apache Oltu is an OAuth protocol implementation in Java. It also covers others “OAuth family” related implementations such as JWT, JWS and OpenID Connect.
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment: Apache

 

Apache CXF

  • Apache CXF is a Java JAX-WS and JAX-RS 2.0 services framework. It also provides a complete JOSE implementation.
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Supports: JWA, JWK, JWS, JWE, JWT
  • Target Environment: Apache


JJWT

  • JJWT aims to be the easiest to use and understand library for creating and verifying JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and JSON Web Keys (JWKs) on the JVM and Android.
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Supports: JWT, JWS, JWE, JWK, JWA, JWK Thumbprint, JWK Thumbprint URI, JWS Unencoded Payload, Edwards Curve JWKs and Algorithms
  • Target Environment:
    Java 7 and later, Android 2 and later

jose

  • “JSON Web Almost Everything” – JWA, JWS, JWE, JWT, JWK, JWKS for Node.js, Browser, Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, and other Web-interoperable runtimes.
  • License: MIT
  • Supports: JWT, JWS, JWE, JWA, JWK, JWKS
  • Target Environment: Node.js, Browsers, Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, and other Web-interoperable runtimes.

 

jsjws

  • The ‘jsjws'(JSON Web Signature JavaScript Library) is a pure open source free JavaScript implementation of JWS. Furthermore, ‘jsjws’ provides JSON Web Signature JSON Serialization (JWS-JS) which is a kind of parallel or independent signature format by multiple signers. Created by Kenji Urushima (@kjur)
  • License: MIT
  • Supports: JWS, JWS-JS
  • Target Environment: generic

 

node-jsonwebtoken

  • node-jsonwebtoken is a JWS library for node.js.
  • License: MIT
  • Supports: JWS, JWT
  • Target Environment: node.js
  • phpOIDC is a PHP implementation of OpenID Connect, developed by Nomura Research Institute. It also includes the JWT, JWS, and JWE support.
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Relying Party: Yes
  • Identity Provider: Yes
  • Target Environment: Apache, nginx

http://jwt.io/ JWT debugger

  • Description: Interactive JWT debugger

 

json-web-key-generator

  • Description: a command-line Java app to generate JWKs and JWK sets