Example of decrypting a JWT?

[anderspitman]

The docs have a nice example of how to encrypt and sign a JWT. Is there an example anywhere of how to decrypt/parse a JWT that has been encrypted this way?

[lestrrat]

Use jwe.Decrypt, and then jwt.Parse. Detecting signed JWTs is baked into jwt.Parse because it's almost ubiquitous, but JWE isn't because 1) it's not as common as signed JWTs, and 2) if jwt.Parse allowed detecting signing and encryption, then it would also have to detect nested signed/encrypted messages, which makes the process much harder.

Examples for decryption can be found in the docs and examples directory

[anderspitman]

Working great, thanks!