Hi Les!

I'm agree, the purpose is not to re-invent the wheel, and thanks to have
created JJWT ;)

As JJWT is under Apache 2.0 license, I think we can use it in Shiro.

Do you have some time to work on this integration or make some proposal?

François Papon
[email protected]

Le 07/03/2019 à 21:38, Les Hazlewood a écrit :
> Hi François!
>
> I see it a little differently.  Shiro 'sits' a little higher than some
> of the lower-level utilities like working with JWTs.  IMO, it should
> leverage these lower-level tools than re-invent the wheel.  So using
> JJWT for JWTs  or using Jackson for JSON, etc.
>
> When I wrote JJWT, I had no idea how many things I would have to take
> into account for the JWT set of specifications.  It is a *lot* of work
> and so many different things need to be taken into account depending
> on the JWT is unsigned, signed, or encrypted.  IMO, this is a whole
> set of low-level responsibilities outside the realm of Application
> Security, which is Shiro's bread-and-butter.
>
> I think it would make a lot more sense for Shiro to _use_ JJWT to
> accomplish things - i.e. session cookies, identity protocol support
> (OpenID Connect, etc).  And of course, wrap these calls behind a nice
> API/Interface so as to not tightly couple Shiro's codebase to JJWT.
>
> FWIW, JJWT also has 'plugin' capabilities where signature and
> encryption algorithms can be delegated to another provider, and maybe
> Shiro could be that provider.  That said, I don't think that's
> necessary because JJWT's algorithm support is already broader in
> support that what Shiro currently has because the JWE specifications
> require various things (like EllipticCurve etc).
>
> Thoughts?  Does this make sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Les
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 12:17 PM Francois Papon
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Les,
>>
>> I take a look on JJWT and it's realy great ;)
>>
>> But as Shiro is a security framework and already have a cryptography
>> module, I was hoping that we could have our own implementation.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> François Papon
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Le 07/03/2019 à 01:37, Les Hazlewood a écrit :
>>> What about jjwt - would that work?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:15 PM Brian Demers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> What use cases are you thinking about targeting ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:33 PM Francois Papon 
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to start a thread about JWT.
>>>>>
>>>>> We already have a shiro-jaxrs module and I think it would be nice for
>>>>> Shiro to be able to use JWT.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is some existing implementations (Apache CXF JOSE, Apache Geronimo
>>>>> microprofile...) and for me it make sence to have an implementation of
>>>>> JWT in Shiro.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> François Papon
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>

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