Function: generateSecret

▸ generateSecret(alg, options?): Promise<KeyLike>

Generates a symmetric secret key for a given JWA algorithm identifier.

Note: Under Web Cryptography API runtime the secret key is generated with extractable set to false by default.

example ESM import

import { generateSecret } from 'jose/util/generate_secret'

example CJS import

const { generateSecret } = require('jose/util/generate_secret')

example Deno import

import { generateSecret } from 'https://deno.land/x/jose@v3.15.5/util/generate_secret.ts'

example Usage

const secret = await generateSecret('HS256')
console.log(secret)

Name	Type	Description
`alg`	`string`	JWA Algorithm Identifier to be used with the generated secret.
`options?`	`GenerateSecretOptions`	Additional options passed down to the secret generation.

Promise<KeyLike>