Hello there,

I am using CAS 5.2 and have spent a long time (which translates to a lot of 
money) on getting JWT Service Tickets to work. 

The CAS documentation states here 

https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/installation/Configure-ServiceTicket-JWT.html
 
that this should be configured using the 

jwtAsServiceTicket Property

It also states here 

https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/installation/Configuration-Properties.html#jwt-tickets

that the signing key is a JWK 

My findings so far: 

JWT service tickets do not work at all in CAS 5.2.0. They work in 5.2.4.

But there are some weired "limitations" that I only figured out running CAS 
inside my debugger. 

(a) The property name is wrong. The property that actually leads to anything 
happening is jwtAsResponse, as others have pointed out in this community.

But even then....I would like to sign my JWTs with a public RSA key in order to 
allow Single Page Web Applications to validate the keys. 

(b) When trying to read the private key, the code does never look for a JWK, 
but - in PrivateKeyFactoryBean - tries to parse a PEM file.
(c) Even if one is lucky enough to eventually have a RSA key inside the 
privateKey by supplying a PEM file, you run in trouble because.
    -- taataaa --
    the AbstractCipherExecutor calls a hardcoded method called 
EncodingUtils.signJwsHMACSha512
(d) If you chose not to encrypt the JWT payload, you may rest assured that you 
get another problem, because someone chose to Base64 encode the payload 
    twice rather than once. 


I have also considered using the OpenID Connect flow instead of the JWT 
Service tokens, but since this is a much more complicated interface my 
expectation 
is that it's implementation is even more broken and its documentation more 
inaccurate. 

Sorry for the rant, but I am really about to lose patience with CAS that 
used to be a very usable, well documented and extensible tool. 


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