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José Padilla
September 04, 2014
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DjangoCon - JSON Web Tokens
DjangoCon US 2014 talk on JSON Web Tokens
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September 04, 2014
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Transcript
JWT
“jot”
JSON Web Tokens
José Padilla
Flickr: Bryan Vincent
Co-founder at blimp.io
/jpadilla
jpadilla.com
Why?
Single Sign-on
Action Links
Webhooks
Token-based Auth
What?
“Compact URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between
two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed using JSON Web Signature (JWS).” - IETF.
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JOSE
JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption
JWA
JSON Web Algorithms
JWK
JSON Web Key
JWT
JSON Web Token
JWS
JSON Web Signature
JWE
JSON Web Encryption
Today it’s all about JWT
How?
Internet-Draft
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{ "typ": "JWT", "alg": "HS256" } eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOi JIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo xfQ.xpCS8TTq1a53OIps1ByTdm 6Sh-A1ZoCId3e2YYWjapU
import json import hmac from hashlib import sha256 from base64
import urlsafe_b64encode ! segments = [] ! header_dict = { 'typ':'JWT', 'alg': 'HS256' } ! json_header = json.dumps(header_dict) ! header = urlsafe_b64encode(json_header).rstrip('=') segments.append(header) eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOi JIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo xfQ.xpCS8TTq1a53OIps1ByTdm 6Sh-A1ZoCId3e2YYWjapU
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{! "user_id": 1! } eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOi JIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo xfQ.xpCS8TTq1a53OIps1ByTdm 6Sh-A1ZoCId3e2YYWjapU
payload_dict = { 'user_id': 1 } ! json_payload = json.dumps(payload)
! payload = urlsafe_b64encode(json_payload).rstrip('=') segments.append(payload) eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOi JIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo xfQ.xpCS8TTq1a53OIps1ByTdm 6Sh-A1ZoCId3e2YYWjapU
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SECRET = 'abc123' ! signing_input = '.'.join(segments) ! sig =
hmac.new(SECRET, signing_input, sha256) signature = urlsafe_b64encode(sig.digest()).rstrip('=') segments.append(signature) ! token = '.'.join(segments) eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOi JIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo xfQ.xpCS8TTq1a53OIps1ByTdm 6Sh-A1ZoCId3e2YYWjapU
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PyJWT
$ pip install PyJWT
import jwt ! SECRET_KEY = "abc123" payload = {"user_id": 1}
! jwt_token = jwt.encode(payload, SECRET_KEY) ! payload = jwt.decode(jwt_token, SECRET_KEY)
/progrium/pyjwt
Django JWT Auth
username/password JWT Error /login
Authorization: Bearer <JWT> JWT Error /restricted
$ pip install django-jwt
import json ! from django.views.generic import View from django.http import
HttpResponse ! from jwt_auth.mixins import JSONWebTokenAuthMixin ! ! class RestrictedView(JSONWebTokenAuthMixin, View): def get(self, request): data = json.dumps({ 'foo': 'bar' }) return HttpResponse(data, content_type='application/json')
from django.conf.urls import patterns from .views import RestrictedView urlpatterns =
patterns( '', ! (r'^login/$', 'jwt_auth.views.obtain_jwt_token'), (r'^restricted/$', RestrictedView.as_view()), )
/jpadilla/django-jwt-auth
DRF JWT Auth
$ pip install djangorestframework-jwt
from rest_framework.views import APIView from rest_framework.response import Response from rest_framework.permissions
import IsAuthenticated from rest_framework_jwt.authentication import JSONWebTokenAuthentication class RestrictedView(APIView): permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated, ) authentication_classes = (JSONWebTokenAuthentication, ) def get(self, request): data = { 'foo': 'bar' } ! return Response(data)
from django.conf.urls import patterns from .views import RestrictedView urlpatterns =
patterns( '', ! (r'^login/', 'rest_framework_jwt.views.obtain_jwt_token'), (r'^restricted/$', RestrictedView.as_view()), )
var url = 'http://localhost:8000/login/', creds = { username: 'admin', password:
'abc123' }; $.post(url, creds, function(auth) { $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: 'http://localhost:8000/restricted/', beforeSend: function(xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + auth.token); }, success: function(data){ console.log(data); // { // foo: "bar" // } } }); });
/GetBlimp/django-rest-framework-jwt
Recap • It’s a standard • It’s simple • Third
party libraries • Single Sign-on • Action links • Authentication • CORS • Stateless • No CSRF • CDN • Mobile/WebSockets
Django REST Framework Sprint
Thanks Questions? http:/ /bit.ly/djangocon-jwt