jwe-decrypt

Description

The jwe-decrypt Plugin is used to decrypt JWE authorization headers in requests to an APISIX Service or Route.

This Plugin adds an endpoint /apisix/plugin/jwe/encrypt for JWE encryption. For decryption, the key should be configured in Consumer.

Attributes

For Consumer:

Name	Type	Required	Default	Valid values	Description
key	string	True			Unique key for a Consumer.
secret	string	True			The decryption key. Must be 32 characters. The key could be saved in a secret manager using the Secret resource.
is_base64_encoded	boolean	False	false		Set to true if the secret is base64 encoded.

note

After enabling is_base64_encoded, your secret length may exceed 32 chars. You only need to make sure that the length after decoding is still 32 chars.

For Route:

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
header	string	True	Authorization	The header to get the token from.
forward_header	string	True	Authorization	Set the header name that passes the plaintext to the Upstream.
strict	boolean	False	true	If true, throw a 403 error if JWE token is missing from the request. If false, do not throw an error if JWE token cannot be found.

Example usage

First, create a Consumer with jwe-decrypt and configure the decryption key:

note

You can fetch the admin_key from config.yaml and save to an environment variable with the following command:

admin_key=$(yq '.deployment.admin.admin_key[0].key' conf/config.yaml | sed 's/"//g')

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/consumers -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "username": "jack",
    "plugins": {
        "jwe-decrypt": {
            "key": "user-key",
            "secret": "-secret-length-must-be-32-chars-"
        }
    }
}'

Next, create a Route with jwe-decrypt enabled to decrypt the authorization header:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/anything*",
    "plugins": {
        "jwe-decrypt": {}
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "httpbin.org:80": 1
        }
    }
}'

Encrypt Data with JWE

The Plugin creates an internal endpoint /apisix/plugin/jwe/encrypt to encrypt data with JWE. To expose it publicly, create a Route with the public-api Plugin:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/jwenew -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/apisix/plugin/jwe/encrypt",
    "plugins": {
        "public-api": {}
    }
}'

Send a request to the endpoint passing the key configured in Consumer to the URI parameter to encrypt some sample data in the payload:

curl -G --data-urlencode 'payload={"uid":10000,"uname":"test"}' 'http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/plugin/jwe/encrypt?key=user-key' -i

You should see a response similar to the following, with the JWE encrypted data in the response body:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 02:38:16 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Server: APISIX/3.5.0
Apisix-Plugins: public-api

eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJraWQiOiJ1c2VyLWtleSIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ..MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEy.hfzMJ0YfmbMcJ0ojgv4PYAHxPjlgMivmv35MiA.7nilnBt2dxLR_O6kf-HQUA

Decrypt Data with JWE

Send a request to the route with the JWE encrypted data in the Authorization header:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/anything/hello -H 'Authorization: eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJraWQiOiJ1c2VyLWtleSIsImVuYyI6IkEyNTZHQ00ifQ..MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEy.hfzMJ0YfmbMcJ0ojgv4PYAHxPjlgMivmv35MiA.7nilnBt2dxLR_O6kf-HQUA' -i

You should see a response similar to the following, where the Authorization header shows the plaintext of the payload:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 452
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 02:38:59 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Server: APISIX/3.5.0
Apisix-Plugins: jwe-decrypt

{
  "args": {},
  "data": "",
  "files": {},
  "form": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Authorization": "{\"uid\":10000,\"uname\":\"test\"}",
    "Host": "127.0.0.1",
    "User-Agent": "curl/8.1.2",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6510f2c3-1586ec011a22b5094dbe1896",
    "X-Forwarded-Host": "127.0.0.1"
  },
  "json": null,
  "method": "GET",
  "origin": "127.0.0.1, 119.143.79.94",
  "url": "http://127.0.0.1/anything/hello"
}

Delete Plugin

To remove the jwe-decrypt Plugin, you can delete the corresponding JSON configuration from the Plugin configuration. APISIX will automatically reload and you do not have to restart for this to take effect.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/anything*",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "httpbin.org:80": 1
        }
    }
}'