Is there any JSON Web Token (JWT) example in C#?

Question

I feel like I\'m taking crazy pills here. Usually there\'s always a million library and samples floating around the web for any given task. I\'m trying to implement authenti

Answer 1

Here is the list of classes and functions:

open System
open System.Collections.Generic
open System.Linq
open System.Threading.Tasks
open Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc
open Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
open Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization
open Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication
open Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer
open Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens
open System.IdentityModel.Tokens
open System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt
open Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens
open System.Text
open Newtonsoft.Json
open System.Security.Claims
    let theKey = "VerySecretKeyVerySecretKeyVerySecretKey"
    let securityKey = SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(theKey))
    let credentials = SigningCredentials(securityKey, SecurityAlgorithms.RsaSsaPssSha256)
    let expires = DateTime.UtcNow.AddMinutes(123.0) |> Nullable
    let token = JwtSecurityToken(
                    "lahoda-pro-issuer", 
                    "lahoda-pro-audience",
                    claims = null,
                    expires =  expires,
                    signingCredentials = credentials
        )

    let tokenString = JwtSecurityTokenHandler().WriteToken(token)

Answer 2

Here is another REST-only working example for Google Service Accounts accessing G Suite Users and Groups, authenticating through JWT. This was only possible through reflection of Google libraries, since Google documentation of these APIs are beyond terrible. Anyone used to code in MS technologies will have a hard time figuring out how everything goes together in Google services.

$iss = "<name>@<serviceaccount>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"; # The email address of the service account.
$sub = "impersonate.user@mydomain.com"; # The user to impersonate (required).
$scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group.readonly";
$certPath = "D:\temp\mycertificate.p12";
$grantType = "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer";

# Auxiliary functions
function UrlSafeEncode([String] $Data) {
    return $Data.Replace("=", [String]::Empty).Replace("+", "-").Replace("/", "_");
}

function UrlSafeBase64Encode ([String] $Data) {
    return (UrlSafeEncode -Data ([Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Data))));
}

function KeyFromCertificate([System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2] $Certificate) {
    $privateKeyBlob = $Certificate.PrivateKey.ExportCspBlob($true);
    $key = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider;
    $key.ImportCspBlob($privateKeyBlob);
    return $key;
}

function CreateSignature ([Byte[]] $Data, [System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2] $Certificate) {
    $sha256 = [System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256]::Create();
    $key = (KeyFromCertificate $Certificate);
    $assertionHash = $sha256.ComputeHash($Data);
    $sig = [Convert]::ToBase64String($key.SignHash($assertionHash, "2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1"));
    $sha256.Dispose();
    return $sig;
}

function CreateAssertionFromPayload ([String] $Payload, [System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2] $Certificate) {
    $header = @"
{"alg":"RS256","typ":"JWT"}
"@;
    $assertion = New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder;

    $assertion.Append((UrlSafeBase64Encode $header)).Append(".").Append((UrlSafeBase64Encode $Payload)) | Out-Null;
    $signature = (CreateSignature -Data ([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($assertion.ToString())) -Certificate $Certificate);
    $assertion.Append(".").Append((UrlSafeEncode $signature)) | Out-Null;
    return $assertion.ToString();
}

$baseDateTime = New-Object DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, [DateTimeKind]::Utc);
$timeInSeconds = [Math]::Truncate([DateTime]::UtcNow.Subtract($baseDateTime).TotalSeconds);

$jwtClaimSet = @"
{"scope":"$scope","email_verified":false,"iss":"$iss","sub":"$sub","aud":"https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token","exp":$($timeInSeconds + 3600),"iat":$timeInSeconds}
"@;


$cert = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2($certPath, "notasecret", [System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509KeyStorageFlags]::Exportable);
$jwt = CreateAssertionFromPayload -Payload $jwtClaimSet -Certificate $cert;


# Retrieve the authorization token.
$authRes = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token" -Method Post -ContentType "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -UseBasicParsing -Body @"
assertion=$jwt&grant_type=$([Uri]::EscapeDataString($grantType))
"@;
$authInfo = ConvertFrom-Json -InputObject $authRes.Content;

$resUsers = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://www.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/users?domain=<required_domain_name_dont_trust_google_documentation_on_this>" -Method Get -Headers @{
    "Authorization" = "$($authInfo.token_type) $($authInfo.access_token)"
}

$users = ConvertFrom-Json -InputObject $resUsers.Content;

$users.users | ft primaryEmail, isAdmin, suspended;

Answer 3

It would be better to use standard and famous libraries instead of writing the code from scratch.

1. JWT for encoding and decoding JWT tokens
2. Bouncy Castle supports encryption and decryption, especially RS256 get it here

Using these libraries you can generate a JWT token and sign it using RS256 as below.

    public string GenerateJWTToken(string rsaPrivateKey)
    {
        var rsaParams = GetRsaParameters(rsaPrivateKey);
        var encoder = GetRS256JWTEncoder(rsaParams);

        // create the payload according to the Google's doc
        var payload = new Dictionary<string, object>
        {
            { "iss", ""},
            { "sub", "" },
            // and other key-values according to the doc
        };

        // add headers. 'alg' and 'typ' key-values are added automatically.
        var header = new Dictionary<string, object>
        {
            { "kid", "{your_private_key_id}" },
        };

        var token = encoder.Encode(header,payload, new byte[0]);

        return token;
    }

    private static IJwtEncoder GetRS256JWTEncoder(RSAParameters rsaParams)
    {
        var csp = new RSACryptoServiceProvider();
        csp.ImportParameters(rsaParams);

        var algorithm = new RS256Algorithm(csp, csp);
        var serializer = new JsonNetSerializer();
        var urlEncoder = new JwtBase64UrlEncoder();
        var encoder = new JwtEncoder(algorithm, serializer, urlEncoder);

        return encoder;
    }

    private static RSAParameters GetRsaParameters(string rsaPrivateKey)
    {
        var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(rsaPrivateKey);
        using (var ms = new MemoryStream(byteArray))
        {
            using (var sr = new StreamReader(ms))
            {
                // use Bouncy Castle to convert the private key to RSA parameters
                var pemReader = new PemReader(sr);
                var keyPair = pemReader.ReadObject() as AsymmetricCipherKeyPair;
                return DotNetUtilities.ToRSAParameters(keyPair.Private as RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters);
            }
        }
    }

ps: the RSA private key should have the following format:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- {base64 formatted value} -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----