React Native Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Validate a JWS Using ECDSA P-256 SHA-256

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Validates a JSON Web Signature (JWS) that uses ECDSA P-256 SHA-256 React Native

import { JsonObject, Jws, PublicKey, StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

function chilkatExample() {
  // This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  // This example takes a JSON signature in compact serialization format,
  // and uses an ECDSA public key to validate and recover the protected header and payload.

  // We only need a public key for signature validation.  This is the ECDSA public key
  // that is used:

  //      {"kty":"EC", 
  //       "crv":"P-256", 
  //       "x":"f83OJ3D2xF1Bg8vub9tLe1gHMzV76e8Tus9uPHvRVEU", 
  //       "y":"x_FEzRu9m36HLN_tue659LNpXW6pCyStikYjKIWI5a0" 
  //      } 

  const sbPubKey = new StringBuilder();
  sbPubKey.append('{"kty":"EC",');
  sbPubKey.append('"crv":"P-256",');
  sbPubKey.append('"x":"f83OJ3D2xF1Bg8vub9tLe1gHMzV76e8Tus9uPHvRVEU",');
  sbPubKey.append('"y":"x_FEzRu9m36HLN_tue659LNpXW6pCyStikYjKIWI5a0"');
  sbPubKey.append('}');

  const pubKey = new PublicKey();
  try {
    pubKey.loadFromString(sbPubKey.getAsString());
  } catch {
    console.log(pubKey.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  const jws = new Jws();

  // Set the ECC public key:
  const signatureIndex = 0;
  jws.setPublicKey(signatureIndex, pubKey);

  // Load the JWS.
  const sbJws = new StringBuilder();
  sbJws.append('eyJhbGciOiJFUzI1NiJ9');
  sbJws.append('.');
  sbJws.append('eyJpc3MiOiJqb2UiLA0KICJleHAiOjEzMDA4MTkzODAsDQogImh0dHA6Ly9leGFt');
  sbJws.append('cGxlLmNvbS9pc19yb290Ijp0cnVlfQ');
  sbJws.append('.');
  sbJws.append('DtEhU3ljbEg8L38VWAfUAqOyKAM6-Xx-F4GawxaepmXFCgfTjDxw5djxLa8ISlSA');
  sbJws.append('pmWQxfKTUJqPP3-Kg6NU1Q');

  try {
    jws.loadJwsSb(sbJws);
  } catch {
    console.log(jws.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Validate the 1st (and only) signature at index 0..
  const v = jws.validate(signatureIndex);
  if (v < 0) {
    // Perhaps Chilkat was not unlocked or the trial expired..
    console.log('Method call failed for some other reason.');
    console.log(jws.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  if (v === 0) {
    console.log('Invalid signature.  The ECC key was incorrect, the JWS was invalid, or both.');
    return;
  }

  // If we get here, the signature was validated..
  console.log('Signature validated.');
  console.log('--');

  // Recover the original content:
  console.log('Recovered content:');
  console.log(jws.getPayload('utf-8'));
  console.log('--');

  // Examine the protected header:

  const joseHeader = new JsonObject();
  try {
    jws.getProtectedH(signatureIndex, joseHeader);
  } catch {
    console.log(jws.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  joseHeader.emitCompact = false;

  console.log('Protected (JOSE) header:');
  console.log(joseHeader.emit());

  // Output:

  // 	Signature validated.
  // 	--
  // 	Recovered content:
  // 	{"iss":"joe",
  // 	 "exp":1300819380,
  // 	 "http://example.com/is_root":true}
  // 	--
  // 	Protected (JOSE) header:
  // 	{ 
  // 	  "alg": "ES256"
  // 	}
}