Decode JWT in golang jwt-go

Question

What's the equivalent of this code ( https://github.com/auth0/java-jwt ) in golang --- jwt-go library

  DecodedJWT jwt = JWT.decode(token);

in golang's jwt-go library, when I have to parse the token I need to have the verification key which is not required in the java library.

Answer 1

From docs at :

func (p *Parser) ParseUnverified(tokenString string, claims Claims) (token *Token, parts []string, err error)

WARNING: Don't use this method unless you know what you're doing.

This method parses the token but doesn't validate the signature. It's only ever useful in cases where you know the signature is valid (because it has been checked previously in the stack) and you want to extract values from it.

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Answer 2

I came across a similar use case where I wanted to validate an access-token and extract fields(such as: iss , sub , aud , exp , iat , jti , etc..) from it after parsing. For my use case, I have used jwx and jwt-go lib.

Here is the code snippet which worked for me.

Code snippet

go.mod file

module my-go-module

go 1.16

require (
    github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go v3.2.0+incompatible
    github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx v1.0.4
)

main package

package main

import (
    "errors"
    "fmt"

    "github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go"
    "github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/jwa"
    "github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/jwk"
)

func main() {
    jwksURL := "https://your-tenant.auth0.com/.well-known/jwks.json"

    keySet, _ := jwk.Fetch(jwksURL)
    var accessToken = "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Ind5TXdLNEE2Q0w5UXcxMXVvZlZleVExMTlYeVgteHlreW1ra1h5Z1o1T00ifQ.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.OtVyCK0sE6Cuclg9VMD2AwLhqEyq2nv3a1bfxlzeS-bdu9KtYxcPSxJ6vxMcSSbMIIq9eEz9JFMU80zqgDPHBCjlOsC5SIPz7mm1Z3gCwq4zsFJ-2NIzYxA3p161ZRsPv_3bUyg9B_DPFyBoihgwWm6yrvrb4rmHXrDkjxpxCLPp3OeIpc_kb2t8r5HEQ5UBZPrsiScvuoVW13YwWpze59qBl_84n9xdmQ5pS7DklzkAVgqJT_NWBlb5uo6eW26HtJwHzss7xOIdQtcOtC1Gj3O82a55VJSQnsEEBeqG1ESb5Haq_hJgxYQnBssKydPCIxdZiye-0Ll9L8wWwpzwig"
    token, err := validate(accessToken, keySet)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("Gor an error while validating an access token: %v\n", err)
    }

    // Check if the token is valid.
    if !token.Valid {
        fmt.Println("The token is not valid.")
    }

    // Extract key value from the token and print them on console
    claims := token.Claims.(jwt.MapClaims)
    for key, value := range claims {
        fmt.Printf("%s\t%v\n", key, value)
    }
}

func validate(tokenString string, keySet *jwk.Set) (*jwt.Token, error) {
    tkn, err := jwt.Parse(tokenString, func(token *jwt.Token) (interface{}, error) {
        if token.Method.Alg() != jwa.RS256.String() { 
            return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected signing method: %v", token.Header["alg"])
        }
        kid, ok := token.Header["kid"].(string)
        if !ok {
            return nil, errors.New("kid header not found")
        }
        keys := keySet.LookupKeyID(kid)
        if len(keys) == 0 {
            return nil, fmt.Errorf("key %v not found", kid)
        }
        var raw interface{}
        return raw, keys[0].Raw(&raw)
    })
    return tkn, err
}