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@arckoor arckoor commented Oct 17, 2025

Adds a CryptoProvider struct that allows replacing the built-in providers with something custom.
All the details from this implementation that could be considered "interesting" are stolen straight from rustls's CryptoProvider.

I've marked the new_signer, new_verifier and JWK functions from the two built in backends as pub, so you can do stuff like this:

fn new_signer(algorithm: &Algorithm, key: &EncodingKey) -> Result<Box<dyn JwtSigner>, Error> {
    let jwt_signer = match algorithm {
        Algorithm::EdDSA => Box::new(CustomEdDSASigner::new(key)?) as Box<dyn JwtSigner>,
        _ => jsonwebtoken::crypto::aws_lc::new_signer(algorithm, key)?,
    };

    Ok(jwt_signer)
}

i.e. overwrite just specific algorithms.

One area I'm a little unsure about is JwkUtils, 1) about the name and 2) about the Default implementation. The CryptoProvider::signer_ and CryptoProvider::verifier_factory functions are obviously mandatory for a custom provider, but not everyone uses JWK, so the default just uses dummy functions with unimplemented!().

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arckoor commented Nov 25, 2025

@Keats any chance of a review on this?

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Would this allow applications to use rustls rather than openssl?

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arckoor commented Dec 2, 2025

@drusellers As far as I know rustls doesn't implement the cryptography directly, rather it relies on other crates like ring, aws-lc-rs, rustcrypto, ...
So you can't really use rustls with this, but you can implement the cryptography with whatever backend you choose, be it openssl, botan, or something else entirely (this crate has aws-lc-rs and rustcrypto built in, using these doesn't require this PR)

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