Encrypt a JWE with a Symmetric Wrapping Key

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Demonstrates Jwe.SetWrappingKey, which sets the symmetric key-wrapping key for a recipient. The key bytes are supplied in a named encoding such as hex or base64.

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Jwe
oleobject loo_Header
string ls_Base64Key
string ls_JweCompact

li_Success = 0

loo_Jwe = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Jwe.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Jwe")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Jwe
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

//  Protected header: AES key-wrap with AES-256-GCM content encryption.
loo_Header = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Header.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

loo_Header.UpdateString("alg","A256KW")
loo_Header.UpdateString("enc","A256GCM")
li_Success = loo_Jwe.SetProtectedHeader(loo_Header)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Jwe.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Jwe
    destroy loo_Header
    return
end if

//  Set the symmetric key-wrapping key for recipient 0.  The key bytes are provided in the named
//  encoding (here base64).  In production, obtain the key from a secure source rather than hard-coding
//  it.
ls_Base64Key = "YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXowMTIzNDU="
li_Success = loo_Jwe.SetWrappingKey(0,ls_Base64Key,"base64")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Jwe.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Jwe
    destroy loo_Header
    return
end if

ls_JweCompact = loo_Jwe.Encrypt("This is the secret content.","utf-8")
if loo_Jwe.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Jwe.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Jwe
    destroy loo_Header
    return
end if

Write-Debug ls_JweCompact


destroy loo_Jwe
destroy loo_Header