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Web Bot Authentication defined by draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture.
This section provides examples usage for signing and verifying web-bot-auth material. More concrete examples are provided on cloudflareresearch/web-bot-auth/examples.
import { Algorithm, signatureHeaders } from "web-bot-auth";
import { Ed25519Signer } from "web-bot-auth/crypto";
// The following simple request ios going to be signed
const request = new Request("https://example.com");
// available at https://github.com/cloudflareresearch/web-bot-auth/blob/main/examples/rfc9421-keys/ed25519.json
const RFC_9421_ED25519_TEST_KEY = {
kty: "OKP",
crv: "Ed25519",
kid: "test-key-ed25519",
d: "n4Ni-HpISpVObnQMW0wOhCKROaIKqKtW_2ZYb2p9KcU",
x: "JrQLj5P_89iXES9-vFgrIy29clF9CC_oPPsw3c5D0bs",
};
const headers = signatureHeaders(
request,
Ed25519Signer.fromJWK(RFC_9421_ED25519_TEST_KEY),
{
created: now,
expires: new Date(now.getTime() + 300_000), // now + 5 min
}
);
// Et voila! Here is our signed request
const signedRequest = new Request("https://example.com", {
headers: {
Signature: headers["Signature"],
"Signature-Input": headers["Signature-Input"],
},
});
import { Directory, VerificationParams, verify } from "web-bot-auth";
// Reusing the incoming request signed in the above section
const signedRequest = new Request("https://example.com", {
headers: {
Signature: headers["Signature"],
"Signature-Input": headers["Signature-Input"],
},
});
async function verifyEd25519(
data: string,
signature: Uint8Array,
params: VerificationParams
) {
// note that here we use getDirectory, but this is as simple as a fetch
const directory = await getDirectory();
const key = await crypto.subtle.importKey(
"jwk",
RFC_9421_ED25519_TEST_KEY,
{ name: "Ed25519" },
true,
["verify"]
);
const message = new TextEncoder().encode(data);
const isValid = await crypto.subtle.verify(
{ name: "Ed25519" },
key,
signature,
message
);
if (!isValid) {
throw new Error("invalid signature");
}
}
await verify(signedRequest, verifyEd25519);
This software has not been audited. Please use at your sole discretion.
This project is under the Apache-2.0 license.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you shall be Apache-2.0 licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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The npm package web-bot-auth receives a total of 92,456 weekly downloads. As such, web-bot-auth popularity was classified as popular.
We found that web-bot-auth demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.

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