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Redux middleware for registering and authenticating with the Web Authentication API.
https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn
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Redux middleware for registering and authenticating with the Web Authentication API.
Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn
Owner: subyraman
Created: 2019-02-18T02:22:15.000Z (over 5 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2023-01-07T03:25:27.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-10-14T15:16:25.240Z (25 days ago)
Language: TypeScript
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Stars: 12
Watchers: 1
Forks: 1
Open Issues: 34
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README

        # redux-webauthn

**Redux middleware for registering and authenticating users with the Web Authentication API (FIDO2).**

![Demo gif](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/master/demo/demo.gif?raw=true)

## Unsure what Web Authentication is? New to public key cryptography? Start at [Webauthn.Guide](https://webauthn.guide)!

This library provides Redux middleware and a reducer to help integrate Web Authentication (also known as FIDO2) into web applications, which will allow your users to authenticate with Touch ID, Windows Hello, Yubikeys, and more. Written in TypeScript for ease of use.

_For security reasons, this library **must** be used in conjunction with a server-side application that is responsible for generating parameters for the Web Authentication API, and the server **must** properly validate registration and authentication objects (credentials and assertions) created by an authenticator._

### See a live demo of the [client-side UX for the library](https://subyraman.github.io/redux-webauthn-client-example/) 

### See the `demo` folder for an [example demonstrating the full server-client WebAuthn data flow](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/demo/redux-webauthn-react-typescript-example), using React, Redux, and Typescript.

### Quickstart:

Add the middleware and reducer into your Redux store. The reducer is optional, but can help ease the initial integration of WebAuthn into your application.

```typescript

import { applyMiddleware, compose, createStore } from "redux"

import {webauthnMiddleware, webauthnReducer} from "redux-webauthn"

const enhancer = compose(

    applyMiddleware(webauthnMiddleware),

)

const reducers = combineReducers({

    'webauthn': webauthnReducer,

    ...otherReducers

})

const store = createStore(reducers, {}, enhancer)

```

### Registering a user:

When registering a user, a new credential keypair will be created, tied to that user and to your website's origin. See [Webauthn.Guide](https://webauthn.guide) for a deeper explanation. 

The `PublicKeyCredentialCreationOptions`, the object used to generate a new keypair, must be created on your server for security reasons, and provided to the client. This library does not have opinions on how you should fetch that data from your server, but the `redux-webauthn-server-example` provides an sample middleware that describes a possible client-server API.

Once that object is retrieved, `redux-webauthn` provides action functions that can be used to execute the appropriate Web Authentication API function. 

See the [example middleware](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/master/demo/redux-webauthn-react-typescript-example/static/Middleware.ts) given in the demo, providing an example of how to use the action functions for registration:

```typescript

 case RequestActionTypes.GET_CREDENTIAL_CREATION_OPTIONS_REQUEST: {

    next(action);

    const formData = _objectToFormData(action.payload);

    try {

        // request a PublicKeyCredentialCreationOptions object from the server

        const response = await postJSON('/webauthn_begin_activate', formData);

        if (response.fail) {

            throw new Error(response.fail);

        }

        

        // convert the b64 data from the server into ArrayBuffers for the WebAuthn API

        response.challenge = webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer(response.challenge);

        response.user.id = webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer(response.user.id);

        if (response.allowCredentials) {

            response.allowCredentials = response.allowCredentials.map((credential: any) => {

                return {id: webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer(credential.id), ...credential};

            })

        }

        

        // Dispatching this action will execute the `navigator.credentials.create` function to create a new credential.

        return store.dispatch(WebauthnActions.webauthnCreateCredentialRequest(response));

    } catch (err) {

        return store.dispatch(WebauthnActions.webauthnCreateCredentialFailure(err))

    }

```

### Authenticating a user:

When registering a user, a new _assertion_ will be created, with a signature created by the private key that was created during registration. See [Webauthn.Guide](https://webauthn.guide) for a deeper explanation. 

As with registration, the browser API expects a `PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions` object to be generated on your server, and passed into the API. The demo provides [example middleware](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/master/demo/redux-webauthn-react-typescript-example/static/Middleware.ts) showing how that interaction can take place:

```typescript

case RequestActionTypes.GET_ASSERTION_CREATION_OPTIONS_REQUEST: {

    const payload = {login_username: action.payload.username};

    const formData = _objectToFormData(payload);

    // get the `PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions` from the server

    const response = await postJSON('/webauthn_begin_assertion', formData) as any;

    response.challenge = webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer(response.challenge);

    response.allowCredentials = response.allowCredentials.map((credential: any) => {

        credential.id = webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer(credential.id);

        return credential;

    });

    // Dispatching this action will execute the `navigator.credentials.create` function to create a new assertion. 

    store.dispatch(

        WebauthnActions.webauthnGetAssertionRequest(response));

    break;

```

## API

### Action Functions

## Functions



### `` webauthnCreateCredentialFailure

▸ **webauthnCreateCredentialFailure**(error: *`Error`*): `object`

*Defined in [Actions.ts:33](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Actions.ts#L33)*

Action function called after a failure in creating a new credential.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type |

| ------ | ------ |

| error | `Error` |

**Returns:** `object`

___



### `` webauthnCreateCredentialRequest

▸ **webauthnCreateCredentialRequest**(publicKeyCredentialCreationOptions: *`PublicKeyCredentialCreationOptions`*): `object`

*Defined in [Actions.ts:16](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Actions.ts#L16)*

Action function to be called during registration, to create a credential. Dispatches the `WEBAUTHN_CREATE_CREDENTIAL_REQUEST` action, which will result in the `webauthnMiddleware` to call `navigator.credentials.create`, the native API for creating a credential.

If a credential is successfully created, the `WEBAUTHN_CREDENTIAL_CREATE_SUCCESS` action type will be dispatched onto the store, with the new `PublicKeyCredential` as payload.

If not successful, the `WEBAUTHN_CREDENTIAL_CREATE_FAILURE` action will be dispatched.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | Description |

| ------ | ------ | ------ |

| publicKeyCredentialCreationOptions | `PublicKeyCredentialCreationOptions` |   |

**Returns:** `object`

___



### `` webauthnCreateCredentialSuccess

▸ **webauthnCreateCredentialSuccess**(serializedCredential: *[SerializedPublicKeyCredential](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.serializedpublickeycredential.md)*): `object`

*Defined in [Actions.ts:26](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Actions.ts#L26)*

Action function called after a new credential has been successfully created after a user confirms a registratration. Note that the `ArrayBuffer` items in the assertion are automatically converted in to url-safe base64 strings, without padding.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type |

| ------ | ------ |

| serializedCredential | [SerializedPublicKeyCredential](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.serializedpublickeycredential.md) |

**Returns:** `object`

___



### `` webauthnGetAssertionFailure

▸ **webauthnGetAssertionFailure**(error: *`Error`*): `object`

*Defined in [Actions.ts:56](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Actions.ts#L56)*

Action function called after a failure in creating an assertion.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type |

| ------ | ------ |

| error | `Error` |

**Returns:** `object`

___



### `` webauthnGetAssertionRequest

▸ **webauthnGetAssertionRequest**(publicKeyCredentialRequestOptions: *`PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions`*): `object`

*Defined in [Actions.ts:49](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Actions.ts#L49)*

Action function to be called during authentication, to create an authentication assertion, which is used to prove an identity of a user. Dispatches the `WEBAUTHN_GET_ASSERTION_REQUEST` action, which will result in the `webauthnMiddleware` to call `navigator.credentials.get`, the native API for creating an assertion.

If a credential is successfully created, the `WEBAUTHN_GET_ASSERTION_SUCCESS` action type will be dispatched onto the store, with the new `PublicKeyCredential` as payload.

If not successful, the `WEBAUTHN_GET_ASSERTION_FAILURE` action will be dispatched.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type |

| ------ | ------ |

| publicKeyCredentialRequestOptions | `PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptions` |

**Returns:** `object`

___



### `` webauthnGetAssertionSuccess

▸ **webauthnGetAssertionSuccess**(assertion: *[SerializedAssertion](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.serializedassertion.md)*): `object`

*Defined in [Actions.ts:65](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Actions.ts#L65)*

Action function called after an assertion has been successfully created after a user confirms an authentication. Note that the `ArrayBuffer` items in the assertion are automatically converted in to url-safe base64 strings, without padding.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type |

| ------ | ------ |

| assertion | [SerializedAssertion](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.serializedassertion.md) |

**Returns:** `object`

___

## Utility Functions

### `` arrayBufferToWebauthnB64

▸ **arrayBufferToWebauthnB64**(arrayBuffer: *`ArrayBuffer`*): `string`

*Defined in [Utils.ts:6](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Utils.ts#L6)*

Utility function for transforming an ArrayBuffer into a url-safe base64 string without padding, used across the WebAuthn API.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | Description |

| ------ | ------ | ------ |

| arrayBuffer | `ArrayBuffer` |   |

**Returns:** `string`

___



### `` webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer

▸ **webauthnB64ToArrayBuffer**(b64String: *`String`*): `ArrayBuffer`

*Defined in [Utils.ts:18](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Utils.ts#L18)*

Utility function for transforming a url-safe base64 string without padding into an ArrayBuffer.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type |

| ------ | ------ |

| b64String | `String` |

**Returns:** `ArrayBuffer`

___

## Reducer

###  webauthnReducer

▸ **webauthnReducer**(state?: *[WebauthnState](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.webauthnstate.md)*, action: *`ActionType`<["Actions"](_actions_.md)>*): [WebauthnState](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.webauthnstate.md)

*Defined in [Reducer.ts:11](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/blob/6b43fe1/src/Reducer.ts#L11)*

Reducer that can be used to handle actions dispatched from the `webauthnMiddleware` object. Suggested unless you would like to create your own reducer to handle the actions yourself.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | Default value |

| ------ | ------ | ------ |

| `Default value` state | [WebauthnState](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.webauthnstate.md) |  {} as WebauthnState |

| action | `ActionType`<["Actions"](_actions_.md)> | - |

**Returns:** [WebauthnState](https://github.com/subyraman/redux-webauthn/tree/master/docs/interfaces/_types_.webauthnstate.md)