Example Cryptographic Verification

This is an example of cryptographically validating license keys, and extracting embedded tamper-proof data within the key for offline use, all with your Keygen account's public key. You can find your public key within your account's settings page.

Cryptographically validating encrypted and signed licenses can be used to implement offline licensing, as well as adding additional security to your licensing model. All that is needed to cryptographically validate a license is your account's public key.

The license's policy must implement one of the following schemes:

• ED25519_SIGN
• RSA_2048_PKCS1_SIGN_V2
• RSA_2048_PKCS1_PSS_SIGN_V2
• RSA_2048_PKCS1_ENCRYPT
• RSA_2048_JWT_RS256

Running the example

First up, add an environment variable containing your public key:

# Your Keygen account's Ed25519 or RSA public key
export KEYGEN_PUBLIC_KEY="YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY_HERE"

You can either run each line above within your terminal session before starting the app, or you can add the above contents to your ~/.bashrc file and then run source ~/.bashrc after saving the file.

Next, install dependencies with yarn:

yarn

Then run the script, passing in the key as well as the scheme:

yarn start --scheme ED25519_SIGN --key SOME_SIGNED_LICENSE_KEY_HERE

# or...
yarn start -s RSA_2048_PKCS1_PSS_SIGN_V2 -k SOME_LICENSE_KEY_HERE

How a given license key is validated will depend on the scheme. Please review the code for a more thorough overview of how each scheme is validated. Be sure to copy your public key correctly - your keys will fail validation if it is copied incorrectly. You can find your public key in your account's settings.

Questions?

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