Amora

Amora is a secure token inspired by JWT and Branca, but enhanced a bit in some areas.

Key features:

• Can contain any type of payload: JSON, msgpack, cbor and so on...
• Always encrypted and authenticated using XChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithm.
• There are two versions of Amora:
  • Amora zero: encrypted with a 32-byte symmetric key.
  • Amora one: encrypted with a 32-byte asymmetric key.
• Encoded using url-safe base64.
• Always contain token generation time and TTL.

Amora structure

• header (4 bytes for Amora zero; 36 bytes for Amora one):
  • version marker: 0xa0 or 0xa1 (1 byte)
  • TTL (3 bytes; little-endian)
  • randomly generated public key (32 bytes; Amora one only)
• nonce (24 bytes)
  • token generation time (first 4 bytes; little-endian)
  • randomly generated 20 bytes
• payload (any length)
• message authentication code (4 bytes)

Token generation time (TGT) + TTL

TGT is an unsigned 32-bit int. It's a number of seconds starting from the Unix epoch on January 1, 1970 UTC. This means that Amora tokens will work correctly until the year 2106.

TTL is an unsigned 24-bits int. It means that each token can be valid for a maximum of 194 days.

Asymmetric encryption

The shared key is computed using the X25519 function. It requires two pairs of priv/pub keys. The first pair must be known. The second pair is randomly generated for each token.

Code examples

Symmetric key from bytes

key = bytes([
	0x4f, 0x99, 0x70, 0x66, 0x2f, 0xac, 0xd3, 0x7d,
	0xc3, 0x6c, 0x0f, 0xd1, 0xda, 0xd0, 0x7e, 0xaa,
	0x04, 0x7c, 0x28, 0x54, 0x58, 0x3c, 0x92, 0x0f,
	0x52, 0x4b, 0x2b, 0x01, 0xd8, 0x40, 0x83, 0x1a,
])
amora = amora_py.Amora.amora_zero(key)
payload = "sample_payload_just_for_testing"
token = amora.encode(payload.encode(), 1)
decoded = amora.decode(token, True)
decoded = bytes(decoded).decode()

Symmetric key from string

key = "4f9970662facd37dc36c0fd1dad07eaa047c2854583c920f524b2b01d840831a"
amora = amora_py.Amora.amora_zero_from_str(key)
payload = "sample_payload_just_for_testing"
token = amora.encode(payload.encode(), 1)
decoded = amora.decode(token, True)
decoded = bytes(decoded).decode()

Asymmetric key from bytes

x25519 = X25519PrivateKey.generate()
secret_key = x25519.private_bytes_raw()
public_key = x25519.public_key().public_bytes_raw()
amora = amora_py.Amora.amora_one(secret_key, public_key)
payload = "sample_payload_just_for_testing"
token = amora.encode(payload.encode(), 1)
decoded = amora.decode(token, True)
decoded = bytes(decoded).decode()

Asymmetric key from string

secret_key = "778d0b92672b9a25ec4fbe65e3ad2212efa011e8f7035754c1342fe46191dbb3"
public_key = "5cdd89c1bb6859c927c50b6976712f256cdbf14d7273f723dc121c191f9d6d6d"
amora = amora_py.Amora.amora_one_from_str(secret_key, public_key)
payload = "sample_payload_just_for_testing"
token = amora.encode(payload.encode(), 1)
decoded = amora.decode(token, True)
decoded = bytes(decoded).decode()

Fetch metadata from the token

token = "oAEAAE_X6GVaC7xve5xaaAaLiW1YPqHX9I1BNGbKnC7ArMke4G" \
	"EU9MXCgU2U5jYAkJhDXQBqsO5tadCKyXZmI3mV-bpDFr1aQc1U";
meta = amora_py.Amora.meta(token)
print(meta)