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Description
Note
The following support tables are for the main process. You may also import the library in the renderer process in which case the applicable support tables follow Browser support.
Electron releases with Node.js LTS Codename Iron (v20.x) and newer are supported.
JSON Web Key Type Support
| Supported | kty value |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| RSA | ✓ | RSA | |
| Elliptic Curve | ✓ | EC | supported curves: P-256, P-384, P-521 |
| Octet Key Pair | ✓ | OKP | supported subtypes: Ed25519, X25519 |
| Octet sequence | ✓ | oct |
JWS Algorithm Support
| Supported | alg values |
|
|---|---|---|
| RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 | ✓ | RS256, RS384, RS512 |
| RSASSA-PSS | ✓ | PS256, PS384, PS512 |
| ECDSA | ✓ | ES256, ES384, ES512 |
| Edwards-curve DSA | ✓ | EdDSA, Ed25519 |
| HMAC with SHA-2 | ✓ | HS256, HS384, HS512 |
| Unsecured JWS | ✓ | none |
JWE Key Management Algorithm Support
| Supported | alg values |
|
|---|---|---|
| AES GCM | ✓ | A128GCMKW, A192GCMKW, A256GCMKW |
| Direct Key Agreement | ✓ | dir |
| RSAES OAEP | ✓ | RSA-OAEP, RSA-OAEP-256, RSA-OAEP-384, RSA-OAEP-512 |
| ECDH-ES | ✓ | ECDH-ES |
JWE Content Encryption Algorithm Support
| Supported | enc values |
|
|---|---|---|
| AES GCM | ✓ | A128GCM, A192GCM, A256GCM |
| AES CBC w/ HMAC | ✓ | A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512 |
Unsupported Algorithms or Key Types
Due to the use of Web Cryptography API and runtime limitations the following is not supported in Electron:
- A128KW, A192KW, and A256KW
- PBES2-HS256+A128KW, PBES2-HS384+A192KW, and PBES2-HS512+A256KW
- ECDH-ES+A128KW, ECDH-ES+A192KW, and ECDH-ES+A256KW
- RSA1_5
- secp256k1 / ES256K
- Ed448
- X448
See also