add support for private keys with passphrase and cypher fields

[davesag]

Node 10 introduced support for crypto.generateKeyPair and the standard example includes a cypher and passphrase field. However, according to other comments, certificates with a passphrase are currently not supported.

This is therefore a feature request to support the passphrase option in node-jose.

Cheers

Dave

[panva]

unfortunately this won't be in our powers to deliver, in node >= 11.6 you may pass your encrypted keys to crypto.createPrivateKey with the passphrase and get a keyobject that you export as non-encrypted pem to pass to to JWK.importKey.

[davesag]

Can I take it then that this project is no longer being actively supported?

[panva]

Can I take it then that this project is no longer being actively supported?

On the contrary, we do support the current API but in light of this feature being part of native node stable branch already I don't feel like we need to have this in a package.

FWIW for environments other than node this feature doesn't make much sense anyway.

[davesag]

I think it’s rhen at least worth clarifying in the documentation that node-Jose is incompatible with pems that have passwords. Right now it just silently fails which is frustrating to debug.

[panva]

I agree. Thanks for pointing that out.