Key Management (JWK)

Keys As Services

When the component is installed, you will be able to define your keys in your application configuration and load your keys from several sources or formats. All these methods have the following option:

  • is_public: set the service public or private.

The key configuration will look like as follow:

jose: # Configuration of the JWT Framework
    keys: # Configuration of the keys
        key_name: # Unique key name
            method_name: # Name of the method
                ...
                is_public: true

The key will be available as a container service with the ID jose.key.key_name where key_name is the unique name of your key. Each key service will be an instance of the Jose\Component\Core\JWK class.

As any other configuration values, you can use environment variables.

From A Shared Secret

This method will directly get a shared secret.

jose:
    keys:
        key_name:
            secret: # Method
                secret: 'This is my shared secret'
                additional_values:
                    use: 'sig'
                    alg: 'RS512'

From A JWK Object

This method will directly load a JWK object.

From A X509 Certificate File

This method will load a X509 Certificate file.

From A X509 Certificate

This method will load a key from a X509 Certificate.

From A PKCS#1/PKCS#8 Key File

This method will load a key from a PKCS#1 or PKCS#8 key file.

From A Key In A Key Set

This method will retrieve a key from a JWKSet service.

Custom Tags

You can add custom tags and attributes to the services you create.

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