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Module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

  • Note: From version 2.0.1 the namespace has changed from jwt to python_jwt, in order to avoid conflict with PyJWT.
  • Note: Versions 1.0.0 and later fix a vulnerability in JSON Web Token verification so please upgrade if you’re using this functionality. The API has changed so you will need to update your application. verify_jwt now requires you to specify which signature algorithms are allowed.
  • Uses jwcrypto to do the heavy lifting.
  • Supports RS256, RS384, RS512, PS256, PS384, PS512, HS256, HS384, HS512, ES256, ES384, ES512, ES256K, EdDSA and none signature algorithms.
  • Unit tests, including tests for interoperability with jose.
  • Supports Python 2,7 and 3.6+. Note: generate_jwt returns the token as a Unicode string, even on Python 2.7.

Example:

import python_jwt as jwt, jwcrypto.jwk as jwk, datetime
key = jwk.JWK.generate(kty='RSA', size=2048)
payload = { 'foo': 'bar', 'wup': 90 };
token = jwt.generate_jwt(payload, key, 'PS256', datetime.timedelta(minutes=5))
header, claims = jwt.verify_jwt(token, key, ['PS256'])
for k in payload: assert claims[k] == payload[k]

The API is described here.

Installation

pip install python_jwt

Another Example

You can read and write keys from and to PEM-format strings:

import python_jwt as jwt, jwcrypto.jwk as jwk, datetime
key = jwk.JWK.generate(kty='RSA', size=2048)
priv_pem = key.export_to_pem(private_key=True, password=None)
pub_pem = key.export_to_pem()
payload = { 'foo': 'bar', 'wup': 90 };
priv_key = jwk.JWK.from_pem(priv_pem)
pub_key = jwk.JWK.from_pem(pub_pem)
token = jwt.generate_jwt(payload, priv_key, 'RS256', datetime.timedelta(minutes=5))
header, claims = jwt.verify_jwt(token, pub_key, ['RS256'])
for k in payload: assert claims[k] == payload[k]

Licence

MIT

Tests

make test

Lint

make lint

Code Coverage

make coverage

coverage.py results are available here.

Coveralls page is here.

Benchmarks

make bench

Here are some results on a laptop with an Intel Core i5-4300M 2.6Ghz CPU and 8Gb RAM running Ubuntu 17.04.

Generate Key user (ns) sys (ns) real (ns)
RSA 103,100,000 200,000 103,341,537
Generate Token user (ns) sys (ns) real (ns)
HS256 220,000 0 226,478
HS384 220,000 0 218,233
HS512 230,000 0 225,823
PS256 1,530,000 10,000 1,536,235
PS384 1,550,000 0 1,549,844
PS512 1,520,000 10,000 1,524,844
RS256 1,520,000 10,000 1,524,565
RS384 1,530,000 0 1,528,074
RS512 1,510,000 0 1,526,089
Load Key user (ns) sys (ns) real (ns)
RSA 210,000 3,000 210,791
Verify Token user (ns) sys (ns) real (ns)
HS256 100,000 0 101,478
HS384 100,000 10,000 103,014
HS512 110,000 0 104,323
PS256 230,000 0 231,058
PS384 240,000 0 237,551
PS512 240,000 0 232,450
RS256 230,000 0 227,737
RS384 230,000 0 230,698
RS512 230,000 0 228,624

GitHub

https://github.com/davedoesdev/python-jwt