Objective-C

JWE using RSAES-OAEP and AES GCM

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This example duplicates the example A.1 in RFC 7516 for JSON Web Encryption (JWE). Objective-C

#import <NSString.h>
#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>
#import <CkoPrivateKey.h>
#import <CkoPublicKey.h>
#import <CkoJwe.h>

BOOL success = NO;

// This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.66 or greater.

NSString *plaintext = @"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.";

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.1 JOSE Header
// First build the JWE Protected Header.
// We want to build this: {"alg":"RSA-OAEP","enc":"A256GCM"}
CkoJsonObject *jweProtHdr = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[jweProtHdr AppendString: @"alg" value: @"RSA-OAEP"];
[jweProtHdr AppendString: @"enc" value: @"A256GCM"];
NSLog(@"%@%@",@"JWE Protected Header: ",[jweProtHdr Emit]);
NSLog(@"%@",@"--");

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.2 Content Encryption Key
// Note: Chilkat automatically generates the random CEK internally.
// The application does not need to explicitly take this step.

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.3.  Key Encryption
// The application should load an RSA private key from any format.
// However, the application does not need to explicitly construct the JWE Encrypted Key.
// Chilkat automatically does it internally.
// The design of the Chilkat JWE API is to allow the application to create the JWE
// after specifying the inputs.  (This is in contrast to forcing the application developer
// to painstakingly go through each step of the JWE construction process.)

// The specific RSA key used in the A.1 example is the following JWK:
CkoStringBuilder *sbJwk = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbJwk Append: @"{\"kty\": \"RSA\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"n\": \"oahUIoWw0K0usKNuOR6H4wkf4oBUXHTxRvgb48E-BVvxkeDNjbC4he8rUW"];
[sbJwk Append: @"cJoZmds2h7M70imEVhRU5djINXtqllXI4DFqcI1DgjT9LewND8MW2Krf3S"];
[sbJwk Append: @"psk_ZkoFnilakGygTwpZ3uesH-PFABNIUYpOiN15dsQRkgr0vEhxN92i2a"];
[sbJwk Append: @"sbOenSZeyaxziK72UwxrrKoExv6kc5twXTq4h-QChLOln0_mtUZwfsRaMS"];
[sbJwk Append: @"tPs6mS6XrgxnxbWhojf663tuEQueGC-FCMfra36C9knDFGzKsNa7LZK2dj"];
[sbJwk Append: @"YgyD3JR_MB_4NUJW_TqOQtwHYbxevoJArm-L5StowjzGy-_bq6Gw\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"e\": \"AQAB\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"d\": \"kLdtIj6GbDks_ApCSTYQtelcNttlKiOyPzMrXHeI-yk1F7-kpDxY4-WY5N"];
[sbJwk Append: @"WV5KntaEeXS1j82E375xxhWMHXyvjYecPT9fpwR_M9gV8n9Hrh2anTpTD9"];
[sbJwk Append: @"3Dt62ypW3yDsJzBnTnrYu1iwWRgBKrEYY46qAZIrA2xAwnm2X7uGR1hghk"];
[sbJwk Append: @"qDp0Vqj3kbSCz1XyfCs6_LehBwtxHIyh8Ripy40p24moOAbgxVw3rxT_vl"];
[sbJwk Append: @"t3UVe4WO3JkJOzlpUf-KTVI2Ptgm-dARxTEtE-id-4OJr0h-K-VFs3VSnd"];
[sbJwk Append: @"VTIznSxfyrj8ILL6MG_Uv8YAu7VILSB3lOW085-4qE3DzgrTjgyQ\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"p\": \"1r52Xk46c-LsfB5P442p7atdPUrxQSy4mti_tZI3Mgf2EuFVbUoDBvaRQ-"];
[sbJwk Append: @"SWxkbkmoEzL7JXroSBjSrK3YIQgYdMgyAEPTPjXv_hI2_1eTSPVZfzL0lf"];
[sbJwk Append: @"fNn03IXqWF5MDFuoUYE0hzb2vhrlN_rKrbfDIwUbTrjjgieRbwC6Cl0\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"q\": \"wLb35x7hmQWZsWJmB_vle87ihgZ19S8lBEROLIsZG4ayZVe9Hi9gDVCOBm"];
[sbJwk Append: @"UDdaDYVTSNx_8Fyw1YYa9XGrGnDew00J28cRUoeBB_jKI1oma0Orv1T9aX"];
[sbJwk Append: @"IWxKwd4gvxFImOWr3QRL9KEBRzk2RatUBnmDZJTIAfwTs0g68UZHvtc\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"dp\": \"ZK-YwE7diUh0qR1tR7w8WHtolDx3MZ_OTowiFvgfeQ3SiresXjm9gZ5KL"];
[sbJwk Append: @"hMXvo-uz-KUJWDxS5pFQ_M0evdo1dKiRTjVw_x4NyqyXPM5nULPkcpU827"];
[sbJwk Append: @"rnpZzAJKpdhWAgqrXGKAECQH0Xt4taznjnd_zVpAmZZq60WPMBMfKcuE\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"dq\": \"Dq0gfgJ1DdFGXiLvQEZnuKEN0UUmsJBxkjydc3j4ZYdBiMRAy86x0vHCj"];
[sbJwk Append: @"ywcMlYYg4yoC4YZa9hNVcsjqA3FeiL19rk8g6Qn29Tt0cj8qqyFpz9vNDB"];
[sbJwk Append: @"UfCAiJVeESOjJDZPYHdHY8v1b-o-Z2X5tvLx-TCekf7oxyeKDUqKWjis\","];
[sbJwk Append: @"\"qi\": \"VIMpMYbPf47dT1w_zDUXfPimsSegnMOA1zTaX7aGk_8urY6R8-ZW1FxU7"];
[sbJwk Append: @"AlWAyLWybqq6t16VFd7hQd0y6flUK4SlOydB61gwanOsXGOAOv82cHq0E3"];
[sbJwk Append: @"eL4HrtZkUuKvnPrMnsUUFlfUdybVzxyjz9JF_XyaY14ardLSjf4L_FNY\"}"];

// Load this JWK into a Chilkat private key object.
CkoPrivateKey *rsaPrivKey = [[CkoPrivateKey alloc] init];
success = [rsaPrivKey LoadJwk: [sbJwk GetAsString]];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rsaPrivKey.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// The public key is used to encrypt (i.e. create the JWE), 
// and the private key is used to decrypt.
// The RSA public key is simply a subset of the private key.  The RSA public key
// is composed of the "n" and "e" members shown above.  These are also known as the
// modulus and exponent.
// We can simply get the public key object from the private key object
CkoPublicKey *rsaPubKey = [[CkoPublicKey alloc] init];
[rsaPrivKey ToPublicKey: rsaPubKey];

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.4.  Initialization Vector
// Chilkat automatically generates the necessary random IV internally.  
// The application does not need to do this explicitly.

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.5.  Additional Authenticated Data
// The Additional Authenticated Data encryption parameter is
// ASCII(BASE64URL(UTF8(JWE Protected Header))).
// Again, Chilkat automatically takes care of this internally.
// The application does not need to explicitly take this step.

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.6.  Content Encryption
// Again... this step is handled by Chilkat internally.

// ---------------------------------
// A.1.7.  Complete Representation
// The application need only call the Encrypt, EncryptSb, or EncryptBd method
// return the fully assembled JWE.  
// The final representation in the Compact Serialization 
// is the string BASE64URL(UTF8(JWE Protected Header)) || '.' ||
// BASE64URL(JWE Encrypted Key) || '.' || BASE64URL(JWE Initialization
// Vector) || '.' || BASE64URL(JWE Ciphertext) || '.' || BASE64URL(JWE
// Authentication Tag).

CkoJwe *jwe = [[CkoJwe alloc] init];
[jwe SetProtectedHeader: jweProtHdr];
[jwe SetPublicKey: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 0] pubKey: rsaPubKey];

NSString *strJwe = [jwe Encrypt: plaintext charset: @"utf-8"];
if (jwe.LastMethodSuccess == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",jwe.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Note: The RSA OAEP algorithm uses random padding bytes internally.
// Therefore, the results will appear different each time -- even if the
// identical plaintext is encrypted with the identical RSA key. 
// (Do not expect the appearance of the results to be the same as what
// is published in the RFC.  However, what is published in the RFC *should*
// be decryptable using the code that follows.)
NSLog(@"%@",strJwe);

// Let's decrypt the JWE that was just produced.
// Do the following to decrypt a JWE:
// 1) Load the JWE.
// 2) Set the private key for decryption.
// 3) Decrypt.
CkoJwe *jwe2 = [[CkoJwe alloc] init];
success = [jwe2 LoadJwe: strJwe];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",jwe2.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Provide the RSA private key for decryption.
// (The JWE was encrypted for a single recipient at index 0.)
[jwe2 SetPrivateKey: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 0] privKey: rsaPrivKey];

// Decrypt.
NSString *originalPlaintext = [jwe2 Decrypt: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 0] charset: @"utf-8"];
if (jwe2.LastMethodSuccess == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",jwe2.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",@"original text: ");
NSLog(@"%@",originalPlaintext);

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// It should also be possible to decrypt the JWE as shown in RFC 7516, Appendix A.1.7
// because it was produced using the same RSA key.

CkoStringBuilder *sbJwe = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbJwe Append: @"eyJhbGciOiJSU0EtT0FFUCIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ."];
[sbJwe Append: @"OKOawDo13gRp2ojaHV7LFpZcgV7T6DVZKTyKOMTYUmKoTCVJRgckCL9kiMT03JGe"];
[sbJwe Append: @"ipsEdY3mx_etLbbWSrFr05kLzcSr4qKAq7YN7e9jwQRb23nfa6c9d-StnImGyFDb"];
[sbJwe Append: @"Sv04uVuxIp5Zms1gNxKKK2Da14B8S4rzVRltdYwam_lDp5XnZAYpQdb76FdIKLaV"];
[sbJwe Append: @"mqgfwX7XWRxv2322i-vDxRfqNzo_tETKzpVLzfiwQyeyPGLBIO56YJ7eObdv0je8"];
[sbJwe Append: @"1860ppamavo35UgoRdbYaBcoh9QcfylQr66oc6vFWXRcZ_ZT2LawVCWTIy3brGPi"];
[sbJwe Append: @"6UklfCpIMfIjf7iGdXKHzg."];
[sbJwe Append: @"48V1_ALb6US04U3b."];
[sbJwe Append: @"5eym8TW_c8SuK0ltJ3rpYIzOeDQz7TALvtu6UG9oMo4vpzs9tX_EFShS8iB7j6ji"];
[sbJwe Append: @"SdiwkIr3ajwQzaBtQD_A."];
[sbJwe Append: @"XFBoMYUZodetZdvTiFvSkQ"];

success = [jwe2 LoadJweSb: sbJwe];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",jwe2.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Provide the RSA private key for decryption.
[jwe2 SetPrivateKey: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 0] privKey: rsaPrivKey];

// Decrypt.
originalPlaintext = [jwe2 Decrypt: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 0] charset: @"utf-8"];
if (jwe2.LastMethodSuccess == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",jwe2.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",originalPlaintext);