JSON Web Key Set Endpoint

Hello,

I am using Java Web Tokens (JWT) for user authentication against the backend servers. These tokens are being created by the F5. In order for the backend servers to validate these JWTs they need the public key signing these tokens from the F5.

Many IDPs solve this by providing its JWT signing public keys on a well-known endpoint for the backend servers to fetch. My idea would be to bundle the public keys used for JWT signing into an Json Web Key Set (JWKS) and upload this as an iFile that is hosted on a certain URL on the F5, e.g. https://my-auth.test/.well-known/jwks.json
Similar to the how jwks_uri is used in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8414#section-2

These JWKS have the following format:

{
"keys": [
  {
    "alg": "RS256",
    "kty": "RSA",
    "use": "sig",
    "x5c": [
      "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"
    ],
    "n": "yeNlzlub94YgerT030codqEztjfU_S6X4DbDA_iVKkjAWtYfPHDzz_sPCT1Axz6isZdf3lHpq_gYX4Sz-cbe4rjmigxUxr-FgKHQy3HeCdK6hNq9ASQvMK9LBOpXDNn7mei6RZWom4wo3CMvvsY1w8tjtfLb-yQwJPltHxShZq5-ihC9irpLI9xEBTgG12q5lGIFPhTl_7inA1PFK97LuSLnTJzW0bj096v_TMDg7pOWm_zHtF53qbVsI0e3v5nmdKXdFf9BjIARRfVrbxVxiZHjU6zL6jY5QJdh1QCmENoejj_ytspMmGW7yMRxzUqgxcAqOBpVm0b-_mW3HoBdjQ",
    "e": "AQAB",
    "kid": "NjVBRjY5MDlCMUIwNzU4RTA2QzZFMDQ4QzQ2MDAyQjVDNjk1RTM2Qg",
    "x5t": "NjVBRjY5MDlCMUIwNzU4RTA2QzZFMDQ4QzQ2MDAyQjVDNjk1RTM2Qg"
  }
]}

Is there a way to automatically create such an JWKS endpoint or export the signing public keys in the JWKS format. Currently it seems that the convertion from public key to JWKS and providing it via an iFile to the backend servers needs to be done manually.

Greetings,
Yannik

devops

security