Needs to support asymmetric key signatures over shared secrets about ruby-jwt HOT 6 CLOSED

the library already does support RSA key signing. use the source, luke!

require 'openssl'
some_private_key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new File.read('path/to/my/private/and/secure.pem'), 'password_for_my_private_key'
rsa_signed_token = JWT.encode(
        {"exp" => Time.now.to_i+3600,
         "name" => "some_name"},
        some_private_key, "RS512")

You can then use the public key to verify the signatures.

And if you need to generate an RSA key pair the OpenSSL library has a very neat documentation:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/OpenSSL.html

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Great, thanks for the information!

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This should get put in the README, I had to google to find this.

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contributing is not a crime, you know ;)

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@kurtisnelson Thanks for bringing this up again. :)

The README / documentation really needs some updates. Working on it this weekend.

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@prandium I improved the documentation and added a better example.

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