Paseto (paseto v1.5.0)

Main entry point for consumers. Will parse the provided payload and return a version (currently only v1 and v2 exist) struct.

Tokens are broken up into several components:

  • version: v1 or v2 -- v2 suggested
  • purpose: Local or Public -- Local -> Symmetric Encryption for payload & Public -> Asymmetric Encryption for payload
  • payload: A signed or encrypted & b64 encoded string
  • footer: An optional value, often used for storing keyIDs or other similar info.

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Handles parsing a token. Providing it just the entire token will return the Paseto.Token struct with all fields populated.

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generate_token(version, purpose, payload, secret_key, footer \\ "")

@spec generate_token(String.t(), String.t(), String.t(), binary(), String.t()) ::
  String.t() | {:error, String.t()}

Handles generating a token:

Tokens are broken up into several components:

  • version: v1 or v2 -- v2 suggested
  • purpose: Local or Public -- Local -> Symmetric Encryption for payload & Public -> Asymmetric Encryption for payload
  • payload: A signed or encrypted & b64 encoded string
  • footer: An optional value, often used for storing keyIDs or other similar info.

Examples:

iex> {:ok, pk, sk} = Salty.Sign.Ed25519.keypair()
iex> token = generate_token("v2", "public", "This is a test message", sk)
"v2.public.VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3QgbWVzc2FnZSe-sJyD2x_fCDGEUKDcvjU9y3jRHxD4iEJ8iQwwfMUq5jUR47J15uPbgyOmBkQCxNDydR0yV1iBR-GPpyE-NQw"
iex> Paseto.parse_token(token, pk)
{:ok,
  %Paseto.Token{
  footer: nil,
  payload: "This is a test message",
  purpose: "public",
  version: "v2"
  }}
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parse_token(token, public_key)

@spec parse_token(String.t(), binary()) :: {:ok, Paseto.Token} | {:error, String.t()}

Handles parsing a token. Providing it just the entire token will return the Paseto.Token struct with all fields populated.

Examples:

iex> token = "v2.public.VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3QgbWVzc2FnZSe-sJyD2x_fCDGEUKDcvjU9y3jRHxD4iEJ8iQwwfMUq5jUR47J15uPbgyOmBkQCxNDydR0yV1iBR-GPpyE-NQw"
iex> Paseto.parse_token(token, pk)
{:ok,
  %Paseto.Token{
    footer: nil,
    payload: "This is a test message",
    purpose: "public",
    version: "v2"
  }}
@spec peek(String.t()) :: {:ok, String.t()} | {:error, atom()}