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Status Submitted
Workspace WebSphere Liberty
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 20, 2024

Add the ability to set a personalized "kid" value in jwtBuilder configuration.

Currently, the jwtBuilder does not provide a method to override the "kid" in the token creation header request.

Liberty automatically generates the "kid" value based on the jwtEnabled value, either by creating a random string of 20 characters or by using a kid hash builder using the keystore.
So there is no way to set our own value for "kid" as required by our company's deployment of the Okta product.

However, according to RFC 7515 of JWT, it is implied that the "kid" can be set: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7515#section-4.1.4.
 

My request is to have a new parameter in jwtBuilder to set the kid :


<jwtBuilder 
   id="myJWTAuthBuilder"
   scope="apis.default"
   audiences="https://sso.xxxxxx.com/oauth2/austxxxxxxx/v1/token"
   issuer="xxxxx_pkjwt_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
   signatureAlgorithm="RS256"
   expiresInSeconds="300s"
   jwkEnabled="true" 
   jti="true"
   nbfOffset="250s"
   kid="2026-04-23-xxxxxxx"
   keyStoreRef="irn-xxxxx-dev-jwt-key"
   keyAlias="xxxxx
   sharedKey="xxxxxx" />

 

 

Idea priority Urgent