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--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/spec/util_jwt_spec.lua	Mon Feb 24 01:24:25 2020 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+local jwt = require "util.jwt";
+
+describe("util.jwt", function ()
+	it("validates", function ()
+		local key = "secret";
+		local token = jwt.sign(key, { payload = "this" });
+		assert.string(token);
+		local ok, parsed = jwt.verify(key, token);
+		assert.truthy(ok)
+		assert.same({ payload = "this" }, parsed);
+	end);
+	it("rejects invalid", function ()
+		local key = "secret";
+		local token = jwt.sign("wrong", { payload = "this" });
+		assert.string(token);
+		local ok, err = jwt.verify(key, token);
+		assert.falsy(ok)
+	end);
+end);
+

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/util/jwt.lua	Mon Feb 24 01:24:25 2020 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+local s_gsub = string.gsub;
+local json = require "util.json";
+local hashes = require "util.hashes";
+local base64_encode = require "util.encodings".base64.encode;
+local base64_decode = require "util.encodings".base64.decode;
+
+local b64url_rep = { ["+"] = "-", ["/"] = "_", ["="] = "", ["-"] = "+", ["_"] = "/" };
+local function b64url(data)
+	return (s_gsub(base64_encode(data), "[+/=]", b64url_rep));
+end
+local function unb64url(data)
+	return base64_decode(s_gsub(data, "[-_]", b64url_rep).."==");
+end
+
+local static_header = b64url('{"alg":"HS256","typ":"JWT"}') .. '.';
+
+local function sign(key, payload)
+	local encoded_payload = json.encode(payload);
+	local signed = static_header .. b64url(encoded_payload);
+	local signature = hashes.hmac_sha256(key, signed);
+	return signed .. "." .. b64url(signature);
+end
+
+local jwt_pattern = "^(([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)%.([A-Za-z0-9-_]+))%.([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)$"
+local function verify(key, blob)
+	local signed, bheader, bpayload, signature = string.match(blob, jwt_pattern);
+	if not signed then
+		return nil, "invalid-encoding";
+	end
+	local header = json.decode(unb64url(bheader));
+	if not header or type(header) ~= "table" then
+		return nil, "invalid-header";
+	elseif header.alg ~= "HS256" then
+		return nil, "unsupported-algorithm";
+	end
+	if b64url(hashes.hmac_sha256(key, signed)) ~= signature then
+		return false, "signature-mismatch";
+	end
+	local payload, err = json.decode(unb64url(bpayload));
+	if err ~= nil then
+		return nil, "json-decode-error";
+	end
+	return true, payload;
+end
+
+return {
+	sign = sign;
+	verify = verify;
+};
+