@blamejs/core 0.12.32 → 0.12.34

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ upgrading across more than a few patches at a time.
 
 ## v0.12.x
 
+- v0.12.34 (2026-05-24) — **`b.cwt` — CBOR Web Token (RFC 8392) sign / verify over `b.cose`.** A CWT is the CBOR-native counterpart to JWT — a signed claims set for constrained / IoT, FIDO attestation, and verifiable-credential contexts. `b.cwt` composes the v0.12.33 `b.cose` (COSE_Sign1 signature + mandatory algorithm allowlist) and v0.12.32 `b.cbor` (deterministic claims encoding) and layers the standard-claim handling on top: `sign` takes a friendly claims object, maps the standard claims to their RFC 8392 §3.1.1 integer labels (iss=1, sub=2, aud=3, exp=4, nbf=5, iat=6, cti=7), and signs; `verify` checks the COSE signature, decodes the claims, and enforces the time + identity claims — a passed `exp` (with clock-skew tolerance), a future `nbf`, and an `iss` / `aud` mismatch against the expected values are each refused. Signing algorithms follow `b.cose`: classical ES256/384/512 + EdDSA (final COSE ids, interoperable today) and ML-DSA-87 (PQC-forward). RFC 8392 is a finalized standard, so CWTs produced here interoperate with other COSE/CWT implementations. **Added:** *`b.cwt.sign(claims, opts)` / `b.cwt.verify(cwt, opts)`* — `sign` maps standard claim names to integer labels and keeps custom claims verbatim; `exp` / `nbf` / `iat` must be non-negative integer NumericDates. `opts.tagged` wraps the COSE_Sign1 in the CWT CBOR tag 61 (RFC 8392 §6); `verify` accepts tagged or bare input. `verify` returns `{ claims, raw, alg, protectedHeaders }` — `claims` is the friendly object (labels mapped back to names), `raw` the integer-keyed Map. Standard-claim enforcement: `exp` past `now + clockSkewSec` (default 60s) is refused with `cwt/expired`, `nbf` beyond `now - skew` with `cwt/not-yet-valid`, and `expectedIssuer` / `expectedAudience` mismatches with `cwt/issuer-mismatch` / `cwt/audience-mismatch` (aud may be a single value or an array). `opts.now` overrides the clock for testing. The signature itself is verified by `b.cose.verify`, so a tampered token fails there.
+
+- v0.12.33 (2026-05-24) — **`b.cose` — COSE_Sign1 sign / verify (RFC 9052) over the in-tree CBOR codec.** COSE is the signed-statement substrate under SCITT, CWT, and C2PA — the CBOR-native counterpart to JWS. `b.cose` ships COSE_Sign1 signing and verification composing the v0.12.32 `b.cbor` codec for the deterministic Sig_structure encoding. It signs with the classical COSE algorithms that interoperate today — ES256 / ES384 / ES512 (ECDSA) and EdDSA (Ed25519), all with final IANA algorithm ids (RFC 9053) — and with ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204) for PQC-forward deployments. Verification accepts the same set, so the framework both produces COSE other implementations read today and consumes third-party COSE. There is no classical default: the caller names the algorithm and supplies the key. **Added:** *`b.cose.sign(payload, opts)` / `b.cose.verify(coseSign1, opts)`* — `sign` produces a tagged COSE_Sign1 with `alg` in the integrity-protected header; `verify` returns `{ payload, alg, protectedHeaders, unprotectedHeaders }`. The Sig_structure (`["Signature1", protected, external_aad, payload]`) is deterministically CBOR-encoded; ECDSA signatures use the IEEE-P1363 fixed-width encoding COSE mandates (RFC 9053 §2.1), not ASN.1 DER. `external_aad` is bound into the signature. v1 is single-signer with an attached payload; detached payload, COSE_Sign (multi-signer), COSE_Mac0, and COSE_Encrypt are deferred-with-condition (operator demand). **Security:** *Bounded, alg-allowlisted, crit-checked verification* — `verify` decodes the COSE_Sign1 bytes AND the protected-header bstr through the bounded `b.cbor.decode` (depth + size caps, indefinite-length / tag / duplicate-key refusal). `opts.algorithms` is a required allowlist (no defaults — name the accepted algorithms). A `crit` header (label 2) listing a header label the verifier does not understand is refused (RFC 9052 §3.1 crit-bypass defense), as is a `crit` label absent from the protected header. The COSE algorithm switch refuses any unrecognized id at the default branch. · *ML-DSA-87 COSE algorithm id is a non-final draft* — ML-DSA-87 uses COSE algorithm id `-50`, a requested (non-final) IANA assignment from draft-ietf-cose-dilithium — an ML-DSA-87 COSE_Sign1 is not yet broadly interoperable and the id may change; it is pinned deliberately with the re-open condition being IANA finalization. SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f has no registered COSE algorithm id at all and cannot be represented in COSE. The COSE_Sign1 mechanism and the classical algorithms are stable; ML-DSA-87 is the forward-looking opt-in.
+
 - v0.12.32 (2026-05-24) — **`b.cbor` — bounded, deterministic in-tree CBOR codec (RFC 8949).** CBOR is the binary serialization underneath COSE (RFC 9052), CWT, SCITT, and WebAuthn attestation — a foundational substrate the framework needs in-tree to build signed-statement primitives without a third-party parser. `b.cbor` is that codec, bounded by default like every parser the framework ships: a binary decoder is attack surface, so the defaults refuse the shapes a hostile encoder uses to exhaust memory or stack. The encoder emits Deterministically Encoded CBOR (RFC 8949 §4.2) — shortest-form heads, definite lengths, map keys sorted by encoded bytes, no indefinite-length items — so two semantically-equal values encode to byte-identical output, the property COSE signatures and SCITT receipts depend on. **Added:** *`b.cbor.encode(value, opts?)` / `b.cbor.decode(buffer, opts?)` / `b.cbor.Tag`* — `encode` produces deterministic CBOR from numbers (integers + float64), bigint (64-bit range), strings, `Buffer` / `Uint8Array`, arrays, `Map` or plain objects, `b.cbor.Tag`, and the simple values. `decode` returns the value with maps decoded to a `Map` (CBOR keys may be integers — COSE header labels are) and byte strings to `Buffer`. `b.cbor.Tag(tag, value)` carries a major-type-6 tagged item. `decode(buf, { requireDeterministic: true })` additionally asserts the input was itself canonically encoded (decode → re-encode → byte-compare), refusing a non-canonical re-encoding on a signature-verify path where it would be a malleability vector. **Security:** *Bounded-by-default decoder* — `maxDepth` (default 64, ceiling 256) caps nesting against stack exhaustion; `maxBytes` (default 16 MiB, ceiling 64 MiB) caps total input, and a declared string / array / map length exceeding the remaining bytes is refused before any allocation (no length-prefix memory bomb). Indefinite-length items (additional-info 31) are refused — a streaming-complexity / DoS vector forbidden by deterministic encoding. Reserved additional-info (28–30) is refused. Tags are refused unless allowlisted via `allowedTags` (a tag triggers semantic reprocessing — an un-vetted tag is a confused-deputy vector). Duplicate map keys (RFC 8949 §5.6) and trailing bytes after the data item are refused.
 
 - v0.12.31 (2026-05-24) — **`b.auth.jar.parse` — verify RFC 9101 JWT-Secured Authorization Requests (server side).** A plain OAuth authorization request carries its parameters in the URL query string, where a browser, proxy, or referer log can tamper with or leak them. RFC 9101 JAR packs those parameters into a JWT the client signs — the request object — so the authorization server can confirm they arrived exactly as sent. `b.auth.jar.parse(jar, opts)` is the server-side verifier and the request-side counterpart to the existing JARM response handling (`b.auth.oauth.parseJarmResponse`). It delegates the signature check to `b.auth.jwt.verifyExternal` — which already enforces a mandatory `algorithms` allowlist and refuses the alg-confusion (`alg: "none"`, HMAC-vs-RSA) and JWE-on-a-JWS-verifier shapes against a JWKS public-key trust source — then pins `iss` and the `client_id` claim to the expected client, pins `aud` to this server's issuer identifier, refuses a nested `request` / `request_uri` (RFC 9101 §6.3 recursion / confused-deputy vector), and returns the authorization parameters with the JWT envelope claims stripped. **Added:** *`b.auth.jar.parse(jar, opts)` — request-object verification* — `opts.clientId` (the expected client — pins `iss` + the `client_id` claim), `opts.audience` (this server's issuer identifier — pins `aud`), `opts.algorithms` (required signature allowlist — no defaults, the alg-confusion defense), and one of `opts.jwks` / `opts.jwksUri` / `opts.keyResolver` (the client's verification key). Returns `{ params, claims }` where `params` is the authorization parameters (`response_type`, `redirect_uri`, `scope`, `state`, `nonce`, …) with the JWT envelope claims (`iss`, `aud`, `exp`, `iat`, `nbf`, `jti`) removed. A request object whose `client_id` claim disagrees with `opts.clientId`, or that nests a `request` / `request_uri`, is refused. Emitting a request object (the client side) is deferred-with-condition: it requires signing with the client's key under a classical JWS algorithm, and the framework's own JWT signer is PQC-only for the tokens it issues — a PQC-signed request object would not interoperate with a standard authorization server; client-side emission re-opens when a classical JWS signer lands or operators surface the need. Until then clients sign request objects with their existing JOSE tooling.

package/README.md

@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ The framework bundles the surface a typical Node app reaches for. Every primitiv
 - **JSON / SQL / schema** — `b.safeJson` (with `maxKeys` cap defending CVE-2026-21717 V8 HashDoS), `b.safeBuffer`, `b.safeSql`, `b.safeSchema`
 - **URL + path** — `b.safeUrl` (IDN mixed-script / homograph refuse); `b.safeJsonPath` (refuses filter `?(...)`, deep-scan `$..`, script-shape `(@.x)` for safe Postgres JSONB ops)
 - **Binary codec** — `b.cbor` bounded deterministic CBOR (RFC 8949 §4.2): depth/size caps, indefinite-length + reserved-info + tag + duplicate-key refusal, `requireDeterministic` canonical-form check; the in-tree substrate under COSE / CWT / SCITT / WebAuthn attestation
+- **COSE signing** — `b.cose` COSE_Sign1 sign/verify (RFC 9052) over `b.cbor`: classical ES256/384/512 + EdDSA (final COSE ids, interoperable today) plus ML-DSA-87 (PQC-forward, draft id); bounded + alg-allowlisted + crit-bypass-checked verification; the signed-statement substrate under SCITT / CWT / C2PA
+- **CBOR Web Token** — `b.cwt` CWT sign/verify (RFC 8392) over `b.cose`: standard-claim mapping (iss/sub/aud/exp/nbf/iat/cti) + `exp`/`nbf` clock-skew enforcement + `iss`/`aud` matching; the CBOR-native JWT for constrained / IoT / FIDO / verifiable-credential contexts
 - **Document parsers** — `b.parsers` (XML / TOML / YAML / .env); `b.config` (schema-validated env)
 - **File-type detection** — `b.fileType` magic-byte content classification with deny-on-upload categories (image / document / archive / executable / etc.)
 ### Content-safety gates

package/index.js

@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ module.exports = {
   // the codepoint-stability contract.
   jose:             { jwe: { experimental: require("./lib/jose-jwe-experimental") } },
   cbor:             require("./lib/cbor"),
+  cose:             require("./lib/cose"),
+  cwt:              require("./lib/cwt"),
   queue:            queue,
   logStream:        logStream,
   redact:           redact,

package/lib/cose.js

@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+"use strict";
+/**
+ * @module b.cose
+ * @nav    Crypto
+ * @title  COSE signing (RFC 9052)
+ *
+ * @intro
+ *   COSE_Sign1 signing and verification (RFC 9052 / 9053), composing
+ *   the in-tree <code>b.cbor</code> codec for the deterministic
+ *   Sig_structure encoding. COSE is the signed-statement substrate
+ *   under SCITT, CWT, and C2PA — a CBOR-native counterpart to JWS.
+ *
+ *   <strong>Signing</strong> supports the classical COSE signature
+ *   algorithms that are interoperable today — ES256 / ES384 / ES512
+ *   (ECDSA) and EdDSA (Ed25519), all with final IANA algorithm ids
+ *   (RFC 9053) — alongside ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204) for PQC-forward
+ *   deployments. There is no classical <em>default</em>: the caller
+ *   names the algorithm and supplies the key. <strong>Verification</strong>
+ *   accepts the same set, so the framework both produces COSE other
+ *   implementations can read today and consumes third-party COSE.
+ *
+ *   <strong>Standards-maturity caveat on the PQC algorithm:</strong>
+ *   the COSE algorithm identifier for ML-DSA-87 is <code>-50</code>, a
+ *   <em>requested</em> (non-final) IANA assignment from
+ *   draft-ietf-cose-dilithium; it may change before that draft is
+ *   published, so an ML-DSA-87 COSE_Sign1 is not yet broadly
+ *   interoperable — pin the identifier deliberately, re-open on IANA
+ *   finalization. SLH-DSA-SHAKE-256f (the framework's default PQC
+ *   signature elsewhere) has <strong>no</strong> COSE algorithm
+ *   identifier registered at all (the COSE SPHINCS+ draft registers
+ *   only the Category-1 'small' sets), so it cannot be represented in
+ *   COSE and is not offered here. The COSE_Sign1 mechanism itself, and
+ *   the classical algorithms, are stable; ML-DSA-87 is the forward-
+ *   looking opt-in.
+ *
+ *   <strong>Verify is bounded.</strong> The COSE_Sign1 bytes and the
+ *   protected-header bstr are decoded through <code>b.cbor.decode</code>
+ *   (depth + size caps, indefinite-length / tag / duplicate-key
+ *   refusal). The protected header is the integrity-protected one;
+ *   <code>alg</code> (label 1) lives there. A <code>crit</code> (label
+ *   2) listing a header label the verifier does not understand is
+ *   refused (RFC 9052 §3.1) — a crit-bypass defense.
+ *
+ *   v1 ships COSE_Sign1 (single-signer) with an attached payload.
+ *   Detached payload, COSE_Sign (multi-signer), COSE_Mac0, and
+ *   COSE_Encrypt are deferred-with-condition (operator demand).
+ *
+ * @card
+ *   COSE_Sign1 sign / verify (RFC 9052) over the in-tree CBOR codec —
+ *   ML-DSA-87 signing (experimental, draft alg id) + classical verify,
+ *   bounded + crit-checked. The substrate under SCITT / CWT / C2PA.
+ */
+
+var nodeCrypto = require("node:crypto");
+var cbor = require("./cbor");
+var validateOpts = require("./validate-opts");
+var { defineClass } = require("./framework-error");
+
+var CoseError = defineClass("CoseError", { alwaysPermanent: true });
+
+var COSE_SIGN1_TAG = 18;                                                               // allow:raw-byte-literal — RFC 9052 COSE_Sign1 CBOR tag
+var HDR_ALG = 1;                                                                       // RFC 9052 §3.1 header label: alg
+var HDR_CRIT = 2;                                                                      // header label: crit
+var HDR_CONTENT_TYPE = 3;                                                              // header label: content type
+var HDR_KID = 4;                                                                       // header label: kid
+
+// COSE algorithm identifiers. ML-DSA-87 is a NON-FINAL requested
+// assignment (draft-ietf-cose-dilithium) — pinned deliberately, re-open
+// on IANA finalization. The classical ECDSA / EdDSA ids are final
+// (RFC 9053). SLH-DSA is intentionally absent (no registered COSE id).
+var ALG_NAME_TO_ID = {
+  "ML-DSA-87": -50,
+  "ES256": -7, "ES384": -35, "ES512": -36, "EdDSA": -8,                                // allow:raw-byte-literal — COSE algorithm identifiers (RFC 9053), not byte sizes
+};
+var ALG_ID_TO_NAME = {};
+Object.keys(ALG_NAME_TO_ID).forEach(function (k) { ALG_ID_TO_NAME[ALG_NAME_TO_ID[k]] = k; });
+
+// Signable algorithms: the classical ECDSA / EdDSA set (final COSE
+// ids, interoperable today) plus ML-DSA-87 (draft id, PQC-forward).
+// All are accepted for VERIFY as well. There is no classical default —
+// the caller names the algorithm explicitly.
+var SIGNABLE = ["ML-DSA-87", "ES256", "ES384", "ES512", "EdDSA"];
+
+// Header labels this verifier understands — a `crit` entry naming any
+// other label is refused (RFC 9052 §3.1 crit-bypass defense).
+var UNDERSTOOD_LABELS = [HDR_ALG, HDR_CRIT, HDR_CONTENT_TYPE, HDR_KID];
+
+function _toKeyObject(key, kind) {
+  if (key && typeof key === "object" && typeof key.asymmetricKeyType === "string") return key;
+  try {
+    return kind === "private" ? nodeCrypto.createPrivateKey(key) : nodeCrypto.createPublicKey(key);
+  } catch (e) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/bad-key", "cose: could not load " + kind + " key: " + e.message);
+  }
+}
+
+function _algParamsFor(algId) {
+  switch (algId) {
+    case -50: return { nodeAlg: null };                                                // ML-DSA-87 (KeyObject specifies the hash)
+    case -8:  return { nodeAlg: null };                                                // allow:raw-byte-literal — EdDSA COSE alg id (RFC 9053), not a size
+    case -7:  return { nodeAlg: "sha256", dsaEncoding: "ieee-p1363" };                 // ES256
+    case -35: return { nodeAlg: "sha384", dsaEncoding: "ieee-p1363" };                 // ES384
+    case -36: return { nodeAlg: "sha512", dsaEncoding: "ieee-p1363" };                 // ES512
+    default:
+      throw new CoseError("cose/unknown-alg", "cose: unrecognized COSE algorithm id " + algId);
+  }
+}
+
+function _bstr(x) {
+  if (Buffer.isBuffer(x)) return x;
+  if (x instanceof Uint8Array) return Buffer.from(x);
+  if (typeof x === "string") return Buffer.from(x, "utf8");
+  throw new CoseError("cose/bad-bytes", "cose: expected bytes (Buffer / Uint8Array / string)");
+}
+
+// Sig_structure (RFC 9052 §4.4) for COSE_Sign1:
+//   [ "Signature1", body_protected (bstr), external_aad (bstr), payload (bstr) ]
+// deterministically CBOR-encoded — the bytes that are signed / verified.
+function _toBeSigned(protectedBstr, externalAad, payload) {
+  return cbor.encode(["Signature1", protectedBstr, externalAad, payload]);
+}
+
+/**
+ * @primitive b.cose.sign
+ * @signature b.cose.sign(payload, opts)
+ * @since     0.12.33
+ * @status    stable
+ * @related   b.cose.verify, b.cbor.encode
+ *
+ * Produce a tagged COSE_Sign1 (RFC 9052) over <code>payload</code>
+ * (bytes). <code>alg</code> is one of the classical ECDSA / EdDSA
+ * algorithms (final COSE ids, interoperable today) or
+ * <code>"ML-DSA-87"</code> (draft id <code>-50</code>, PQC-forward).
+ * <code>alg</code> is placed in the integrity-protected header.
+ *
+ * @opts
+ *   {
+ *     alg:                 string,    // "ES256" | "ES384" | "ES512" | "EdDSA" | "ML-DSA-87"
+ *     privateKey:          object,    // matching KeyObject or PEM
+ *     kid?:                string,    // → unprotected header label 4
+ *     contentType?:        number,    // → protected header label 3
+ *     externalAad?:        Buffer,    // default empty — bound into the signature
+ *     unprotectedHeaders?: object,    // extra unprotected map entries (numeric keys)
+ *   }
+ *
+ * @example
+ *   var coseSign1 = await b.cose.sign(Buffer.from("statement"), {
+ *     alg: "ES256", privateKey: ecKey, kid: "key-1",
+ *   });
+ */
+async function sign(payload, opts) {
+  validateOpts.requireObject(opts, "cose.sign", CoseError);
+  validateOpts(opts, ["alg", "privateKey", "kid", "contentType", "externalAad", "unprotectedHeaders"], "cose.sign");
+  if (SIGNABLE.indexOf(opts.alg) === -1) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/unsignable-alg",
+      "cose.sign: alg must be one of " + SIGNABLE.join(" / ") +
+      " (SLH-DSA has no COSE algorithm id and is not offered)");
+  }
+  if (!opts.privateKey) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/no-key", "cose.sign: opts.privateKey is required");
+  }
+  var algId = ALG_NAME_TO_ID[opts.alg];
+  var params = _algParamsFor(algId);
+  var key = _toKeyObject(opts.privateKey, "private");
+
+  var protMap = new Map();
+  protMap.set(HDR_ALG, algId);
+  if (typeof opts.contentType === "number") protMap.set(HDR_CONTENT_TYPE, opts.contentType);
+  var protectedBstr = cbor.encode(protMap);
+
+  var unprot = new Map();
+  if (typeof opts.kid === "string") unprot.set(HDR_KID, Buffer.from(opts.kid, "utf8"));
+  if (opts.unprotectedHeaders && typeof opts.unprotectedHeaders === "object") {
+    var uk = Object.keys(opts.unprotectedHeaders);
+    for (var i = 0; i < uk.length; i++) unprot.set(Number(uk[i]), opts.unprotectedHeaders[uk[i]]);
+  }
+
+  var payloadBytes = _bstr(payload);
+  var externalAad = opts.externalAad == null ? Buffer.alloc(0) : _bstr(opts.externalAad);
+  var toBeSigned = _toBeSigned(protectedBstr, externalAad, payloadBytes);
+
+  // ML-DSA-87 + EdDSA: the KeyObject specifies the algorithm, so a
+  // null digest name is correct. ECDSA: a digest + the IEEE-P1363
+  // fixed-width signature encoding COSE mandates (RFC 9053 §2.1, not
+  // ASN.1 DER).
+  var signature = (params.nodeAlg === null)
+    ? nodeCrypto.sign(null, toBeSigned, key)
+    : nodeCrypto.sign(params.nodeAlg, toBeSigned, { key: key, dsaEncoding: params.dsaEncoding });
+
+  var sign1 = [protectedBstr, unprot, payloadBytes, signature];
+  return cbor.encode(new cbor.Tag(COSE_SIGN1_TAG, sign1));
+}
+
+/**
+ * @primitive b.cose.verify
+ * @signature b.cose.verify(coseSign1, opts)
+ * @since     0.12.33
+ * @status    experimental
+ * @related   b.cose.sign, b.cbor.decode
+ *
+ * Verify a COSE_Sign1 (RFC 9052) and return its payload + headers.
+ * The bytes are decoded through the bounded <code>b.cbor</code> codec;
+ * <code>alg</code> is read from the integrity-protected header and must
+ * be in <code>opts.algorithms</code>; a <code>crit</code> header naming
+ * a label the verifier does not understand is refused. Accepts ML-DSA-87
+ * plus the classical ECDSA / EdDSA COSE algorithms.
+ *
+ * @opts
+ *   {
+ *     algorithms:   string[],  // required — accepted alg names (allowlist)
+ *     publicKey?:   object,    // the verification key (KeyObject / PEM)
+ *     keyResolver?: function,  // (protectedHeaders, unprotectedHeaders) → key
+ *     externalAad?: Buffer,    // must match what was signed
+ *     maxBytes?:    number,    // forwarded to b.cbor.decode
+ *     maxDepth?:    number,
+ *   }
+ *
+ * @example
+ *   var out = await b.cose.verify(coseSign1, { algorithms: ["ML-DSA-87"], publicKey: pub });
+ *   // → { payload: <Buffer>, alg: "ML-DSA-87", protectedHeaders: Map, unprotectedHeaders: Map }
+ */
+async function verify(coseSign1, opts) {
+  validateOpts.requireObject(opts, "cose.verify", CoseError);
+  validateOpts(opts, ["algorithms", "publicKey", "keyResolver", "externalAad", "maxBytes", "maxDepth"], "cose.verify");
+  if (!Array.isArray(opts.algorithms) || opts.algorithms.length === 0) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/algorithms-required",
+      "cose.verify: opts.algorithms is required (no defaults — name the accepted algorithms)");
+  }
+  for (var ai = 0; ai < opts.algorithms.length; ai++) {
+    if (!(opts.algorithms[ai] in ALG_NAME_TO_ID)) {
+      throw new CoseError("cose/unknown-alg", "cose.verify: unknown algorithm '" + opts.algorithms[ai] + "'");
+    }
+  }
+  if (!opts.publicKey && typeof opts.keyResolver !== "function") {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/no-key", "cose.verify: pass publicKey or keyResolver");
+  }
+
+  var decoded = cbor.decode(_bstr(coseSign1), {
+    allowedTags: [COSE_SIGN1_TAG],
+    maxBytes:    opts.maxBytes,
+    maxDepth:    opts.maxDepth,
+  });
+  // Accept tagged (18) or bare COSE_Sign1 array.
+  var arr = (decoded instanceof cbor.Tag && decoded.tag === COSE_SIGN1_TAG) ? decoded.value : decoded;
+  if (!Array.isArray(arr) || arr.length !== 4) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/malformed", "cose.verify: not a COSE_Sign1 (expected a 4-element array)");
+  }
+  var protectedBstr = arr[0];
+  var unprotected = arr[1];
+  var payload = arr[2];
+  var signature = arr[3];
+  if (!Buffer.isBuffer(protectedBstr) || !Buffer.isBuffer(signature)) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/malformed", "cose.verify: protected header and signature must be byte strings");
+  }
+  if (payload === null || payload === undefined) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/detached-unsupported",
+      "cose.verify: detached payload (nil) is not supported in v1 — attached payload only");
+  }
+  // COSE_Sign1 payload is a bstr (RFC 9052 §4.2) — refuse a non-byte
+  // payload rather than return a value that violates the documented
+  // { payload: Buffer } shape.
+  if (!Buffer.isBuffer(payload)) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/malformed", "cose.verify: payload must be a byte string (bstr)");
+  }
+  // The unprotected header is a CBOR map — refuse a non-map rather
+  // than silently coerce it to empty (callers read kid etc. from it).
+  if (!(unprotected instanceof Map)) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/malformed", "cose.verify: unprotected header must be a CBOR map");
+  }
+
+  // Decode the protected header (bounded) — empty bstr means no protected headers.
+  var protMap = protectedBstr.length === 0 ? new Map()
+    : cbor.decode(protectedBstr, { maxBytes: opts.maxBytes, maxDepth: opts.maxDepth });
+  if (!(protMap instanceof Map)) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/malformed", "cose.verify: protected header is not a CBOR map");
+  }
+
+  // crit-bypass defense: every label in a crit array must be one the
+  // verifier understands AND must be present in the protected header.
+  if (protMap.has(HDR_CRIT)) {
+    var crit = protMap.get(HDR_CRIT);
+    if (!Array.isArray(crit)) {
+      throw new CoseError("cose/bad-crit", "cose.verify: crit (label 2) must be an array");
+    }
+    for (var ci = 0; ci < crit.length; ci++) {
+      if (UNDERSTOOD_LABELS.indexOf(crit[ci]) === -1) {
+        throw new CoseError("cose/crit-unknown",
+          "cose.verify: crit lists header label " + crit[ci] + " which is not understood (RFC 9052 §3.1)");
+      }
+      if (!protMap.has(crit[ci])) {
+        throw new CoseError("cose/crit-absent",
+          "cose.verify: crit lists label " + crit[ci] + " not present in the protected header");
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  var algId = protMap.get(HDR_ALG);
+  var algName = ALG_ID_TO_NAME[algId];
+  if (algName === undefined) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/unknown-alg", "cose.verify: unrecognized protected alg id " + algId);
+  }
+  if (opts.algorithms.indexOf(algName) === -1) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/alg-not-allowed",
+      "cose.verify: alg '" + algName + "' is not in the allowlist");
+  }
+  var params = _algParamsFor(algId);                                                    // throws cose/unknown-alg on an unrecognized id
+
+  var key = opts.publicKey
+    ? _toKeyObject(opts.publicKey, "public")
+    : _toKeyObject(opts.keyResolver(protMap, unprotected), "public");
+
+  var externalAad = opts.externalAad == null ? Buffer.alloc(0) : _bstr(opts.externalAad);
+  var toBeSigned = _toBeSigned(protectedBstr, externalAad, payload);
+
+  var ok;
+  if (params.nodeAlg === null) {
+    ok = nodeCrypto.verify(null, toBeSigned, key, signature);
+  } else {
+    ok = nodeCrypto.verify(params.nodeAlg, toBeSigned,
+      { key: key, dsaEncoding: params.dsaEncoding }, signature);
+  }
+  if (!ok) {
+    throw new CoseError("cose/bad-signature", "cose.verify: signature verification failed");
+  }
+  return {
+    payload:             payload,
+    alg:                 algName,
+    protectedHeaders:    protMap,
+    unprotectedHeaders:  unprotected,
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  sign:        sign,
+  verify:      verify,
+  ALGORITHMS:  ALG_NAME_TO_ID,
+  COSE_SIGN1_TAG: COSE_SIGN1_TAG,
+  CoseError:   CoseError,
+};

package/lib/cwt.js

@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+"use strict";
+/**
+ * @module b.cwt
+ * @nav    Crypto
+ * @title  CBOR Web Token (CWT)
+ *
+ * @intro
+ *   RFC 8392 CBOR Web Token — the CBOR-native counterpart to JWT, a
+ *   signed claims set for constrained / IoT, FIDO attestation, and
+ *   verifiable-credential contexts. A CWT is a COSE_Sign1
+ *   (<code>b.cose</code>) whose payload is a deterministically-encoded
+ *   CBOR claims map (<code>b.cbor</code>) — this module composes both
+ *   and layers the standard-claim handling on top.
+ *
+ *   <code>b.cwt.sign(claims, opts)</code> accepts a friendly claims
+ *   object; the standard claims are mapped to their RFC 8392 §3.1.1
+ *   integer labels (<code>iss</code>=1, <code>sub</code>=2,
+ *   <code>aud</code>=3, <code>exp</code>=4, <code>nbf</code>=5,
+ *   <code>iat</code>=6, <code>cti</code>=7) and any other key is kept
+ *   verbatim. <code>b.cwt.verify(cwt, opts)</code> verifies the COSE
+ *   signature (delegating the mandatory algorithm allowlist to
+ *   <code>b.cose.verify</code>), decodes the claims, and enforces the
+ *   time + identity claims: a passed <code>exp</code>, a future
+ *   <code>nbf</code>, an <code>iss</code> / <code>aud</code> mismatch
+ *   against the expected values are each refused.
+ *
+ *   Signing algorithms follow <code>b.cose</code>: the classical
+ *   ES256/384/512 + EdDSA (final COSE ids, interoperable today) and
+ *   ML-DSA-87 (PQC-forward). The optional CWT CBOR tag (61, RFC 8392
+ *   §6) wraps the COSE_Sign1 when <code>opts.tagged</code> is set;
+ *   <code>verify</code> accepts tagged and untagged input.
+ *
+ * @card
+ *   RFC 8392 CBOR Web Token — sign / verify a CBOR claims set as a
+ *   COSE_Sign1, with standard-claim mapping + exp / nbf / iss / aud
+ *   enforcement. Composes b.cose + b.cbor.
+ */
+
+var cose = require("./cose");
+var cbor = require("./cbor");
+var C = require("./constants");
+var validateOpts = require("./validate-opts");
+var { defineClass } = require("./framework-error");
+
+var CwtError = defineClass("CwtError", { alwaysPermanent: true });
+
+// RFC 8392 §3.1.1 standard claim labels.
+var STD = { iss: 1, sub: 2, aud: 3, exp: 4, nbf: 5, iat: 6, cti: 7 };
+var STD_BY_LABEL = {};
+Object.keys(STD).forEach(function (k) { STD_BY_LABEL[STD[k]] = k; });
+
+var NUMERIC_DATE_CLAIMS = { exp: true, nbf: true, iat: true };
+
+// CWT CBOR tag (RFC 8392 §6) — 61, encoded as the 2-byte head 0xd8 0x3d.
+var CWT_TAG_PREFIX = Buffer.from([0xd8, 0x3d]);                                        // allow:raw-byte-literal — CBOR tag-61 head (0xd8=tag 1-byte arg, 0x3d=61)
+
+function _nowSec(opts) {
+  var ms = (opts && typeof opts.now === "number") ? opts.now : Date.now();
+  return Math.floor(ms / C.TIME.seconds(1));
+}
+
+// Read a leading CBOR tag head (major type 6) in any of its encodings;
+// returns { tag, len } or null if the buffer doesn't start with a tag.
+function _readTagHead(buf) {
+  if (buf.length < 1 || (buf[0] >> 5) !== 6) return null;                               // allow:raw-byte-literal — CBOR major-type 6 (tag) shift
+  var ai = buf[0] & 0x1f;
+  if (ai < 24) return { tag: ai, len: 1 };
+  if (ai === 24) return buf.length >= 2 ? { tag: buf[1], len: 2 } : null;               // allow:raw-byte-literal — CBOR additional-info threshold (RFC 8949 §3), not a size
+  if (ai === 25) return buf.length >= 3 ? { tag: buf.readUInt16BE(1), len: 3 } : null;
+  if (ai === 26) return buf.length >= 5 ? { tag: buf.readUInt32BE(1), len: 5 } : null;
+  if (ai === 27) return buf.length >= 9 ? { tag: Number(buf.readBigUInt64BE(1)), len: 9 } : null;
+  return null;                                                                          // reserved / indefinite — not a tag head we accept
+}
+
+/**
+ * @primitive b.cwt.sign
+ * @signature b.cwt.sign(claims, opts)
+ * @since     0.12.34
+ * @status    stable
+ * @related   b.cwt.verify, b.cose.sign
+ *
+ * Sign a claims set into a CWT (a COSE_Sign1 over the CBOR-encoded
+ * claims). Standard claims are mapped to their integer labels; custom
+ * claims (string or integer keys) are kept as given. <code>exp</code>
+ * / <code>nbf</code> / <code>iat</code> must be integer NumericDates
+ * (seconds since the epoch).
+ *
+ * @opts
+ *   {
+ *     alg:        string,   // COSE signing alg (ES256 / EdDSA / ML-DSA-87 / …)
+ *     privateKey: object,   // signing key (per b.cose.sign)
+ *     kid?:       string,   // COSE kid header
+ *     tagged?:    boolean,  // wrap in CWT CBOR tag 61 (default false)
+ *     externalAad?: Buffer, // bound into the COSE signature
+ *   }
+ *
+ * @example
+ *   var cwt = await b.cwt.sign(
+ *     { iss: "issuer.example", sub: "device-42", exp: Math.floor(Date.now()/1000) + 3600, scope: "telemetry" },
+ *     { alg: "ES256", privateKey: ecKey, kid: "k1" });
+ */
+async function sign(claims, opts) {
+  if (!claims || typeof claims !== "object" || Array.isArray(claims)) {
+    throw new CwtError("cwt/bad-claims", "cwt.sign: claims must be a plain object");
+  }
+  validateOpts.requireObject(opts, "cwt.sign", CwtError);
+  validateOpts(opts, ["alg", "privateKey", "kid", "tagged", "externalAad"], "cwt.sign");
+
+  var map = new Map();
+  var keys = Object.keys(claims);
+  for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
+    var name = keys[i];
+    var value = claims[name];
+    if (NUMERIC_DATE_CLAIMS[name] &&
+        (typeof value !== "number" || !Number.isInteger(value) || value < 0)) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/bad-numeric-date",
+        "cwt.sign: claim '" + name + "' must be a non-negative integer NumericDate (seconds)");
+    }
+    map.set(Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(STD, name) ? STD[name] : name, value);
+  }
+
+  var claimsCbor = cbor.encode(map);
+  var coseSign1 = await cose.sign(claimsCbor, {
+    alg: opts.alg, privateKey: opts.privateKey, kid: opts.kid, externalAad: opts.externalAad,
+  });
+  return opts.tagged === true ? Buffer.concat([CWT_TAG_PREFIX, coseSign1]) : coseSign1;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @primitive b.cwt.verify
+ * @signature b.cwt.verify(cwt, opts)
+ * @since     0.12.34
+ * @status    stable
+ * @related   b.cwt.sign, b.cose.verify
+ *
+ * Verify a CWT and return its claims. The COSE signature is checked
+ * via <code>b.cose.verify</code> (mandatory <code>algorithms</code>
+ * allowlist), then the standard time / identity claims are enforced:
+ * a passed <code>exp</code> (with <code>clockSkewSec</code> tolerance),
+ * a not-yet-valid <code>nbf</code>, and — when requested — an
+ * <code>iss</code> / <code>aud</code> mismatch are refused. Accepts a
+ * CWT-tag-61-wrapped or bare COSE_Sign1.
+ *
+ * @opts
+ *   {
+ *     algorithms:       string[],  // required — accepted COSE algs (allowlist)
+ *     publicKey?:       object,    // verification key (per b.cose.verify)
+ *     keyResolver?:     function,
+ *     expectedIssuer?:  string,    // require iss === this
+ *     expectedAudience?: string,   // require aud to include this
+ *     clockSkewSec?:    number,    // default 60
+ *     now?:             number,    // override clock (ms) for testing
+ *     externalAad?:     Buffer,
+ *   }
+ *
+ * @example
+ *   var out = await b.cwt.verify(cwt, { algorithms: ["ES256"], publicKey: pub, expectedIssuer: "issuer.example" });
+ *   // → { claims: { iss, sub, exp, scope }, raw: Map, protectedHeaders: Map }
+ */
+async function verify(cwt, opts) {
+  if (!Buffer.isBuffer(cwt) && !(cwt instanceof Uint8Array)) {
+    throw new CwtError("cwt/bad-input", "cwt.verify: cwt must be a Buffer / Uint8Array");
+  }
+  validateOpts.requireObject(opts, "cwt.verify", CwtError);
+  validateOpts(opts, [
+    "algorithms", "publicKey", "keyResolver", "expectedIssuer",
+    "expectedAudience", "clockSkewSec", "now", "externalAad",
+  ], "cwt.verify");
+
+  // Strip the optional CWT tag-61 wrapper to recover the COSE_Sign1.
+  // Read the tag head generically (1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 9-byte argument
+  // forms) rather than matching only the minimal 0xd8 0x3d encoding —
+  // an external CBOR encoder may emit a non-minimal but valid tag 61.
+  var coseBytes = Buffer.from(cwt);
+  var head = _readTagHead(coseBytes);
+  if (head && head.tag === 61) coseBytes = coseBytes.subarray(head.len);                // allow:raw-byte-literal — CWT CBOR tag number (RFC 8392 §6)
+
+  var verified = await cose.verify(coseBytes, {
+    algorithms: opts.algorithms, publicKey: opts.publicKey,
+    keyResolver: opts.keyResolver, externalAad: opts.externalAad,
+  });
+
+  var raw = cbor.decode(verified.payload);
+  if (!(raw instanceof Map)) {
+    throw new CwtError("cwt/bad-claims", "cwt.verify: claims payload is not a CBOR map");
+  }
+
+  // Time claims (NumericDate, seconds). Skew tolerance both directions.
+  var skew = (typeof opts.clockSkewSec === "number" && opts.clockSkewSec >= 0) ? opts.clockSkewSec : 60;   // allow:numeric-opt-Infinity — clamped non-negative, else default / allow:raw-time-literal — clock-skew in seconds (NumericDate units), not a ms duration
+  var now = _nowSec(opts);
+  // A present exp / nbf MUST be a well-formed NumericDate — a non-numeric
+  // value would otherwise bypass the time check entirely (a token could
+  // carry exp: "whenever" and never expire). Refuse the malformed claim.
+  if (raw.has(STD.exp)) {
+    var exp = raw.get(STD.exp);
+    if (typeof exp !== "number" || !isFinite(exp)) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/malformed-claim", "cwt.verify: exp claim is present but not a numeric NumericDate");
+    }
+    if (now > exp + skew) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/expired", "cwt.verify: token expired (exp " + exp + " < now " + now + ")");
+    }
+  }
+  if (raw.has(STD.nbf)) {
+    var nbf = raw.get(STD.nbf);
+    if (typeof nbf !== "number" || !isFinite(nbf)) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/malformed-claim", "cwt.verify: nbf claim is present but not a numeric NumericDate");
+    }
+    if (now < nbf - skew) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/not-yet-valid", "cwt.verify: token not yet valid (nbf " + nbf + " > now " + now + ")");
+    }
+  }
+  if (opts.expectedIssuer != null) {
+    if (raw.get(STD.iss) !== opts.expectedIssuer) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/issuer-mismatch", "cwt.verify: iss does not match expectedIssuer");
+    }
+  }
+  if (opts.expectedAudience != null) {
+    var aud = raw.get(STD.aud);
+    var audOk = Array.isArray(aud) ? aud.indexOf(opts.expectedAudience) !== -1 : aud === opts.expectedAudience;
+    if (!audOk) {
+      throw new CwtError("cwt/audience-mismatch", "cwt.verify: aud does not include expectedAudience");
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Build a friendly claims object (standard labels → names).
+  var claims = {};
+  raw.forEach(function (v, k) {
+    claims[Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(STD_BY_LABEL, k) ? STD_BY_LABEL[k] : k] = v;
+  });
+
+  return { claims: claims, raw: raw, alg: verified.alg, protectedHeaders: verified.protectedHeaders };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  sign:        sign,
+  verify:      verify,
+  CLAIM_LABELS: STD,
+  CwtError:    CwtError,
+};

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@blamejs/core",
-  "version": "0.12.32",
+  "version": "0.12.34",
   "description": "The Node framework that owns its stack.",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "author": "blamejs contributors",

package/sbom.cdx.json

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
   "$schema": "http://cyclonedx.org/schema/bom-1.5.schema.json",
   "bomFormat": "CycloneDX",
   "specVersion": "1.5",
-  "serialNumber": "urn:uuid:88fb98f7-bbba-4c61-8d9f-61fed73b049c",
+  "serialNumber": "urn:uuid:619f056d-4027-4805-8bea-f39101edd638",
   "version": 1,
   "metadata": {
-    "timestamp": "2026-05-24T20:36:05.508Z",
+    "timestamp": "2026-05-24T22:52:17.036Z",
     "lifecycles": [
       {
         "phase": "build"
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
       }
     ],
     "component": {
-      "bom-ref": "@blamejs/core@0.12.32",
+      "bom-ref": "@blamejs/core@0.12.34",
       "type": "application",
       "name": "blamejs",
-      "version": "0.12.32",
+      "version": "0.12.34",
       "scope": "required",
       "author": "blamejs contributors",
       "description": "The Node framework that owns its stack.",
-      "purl": "pkg:npm/%40blamejs/core@0.12.32",
+      "purl": "pkg:npm/%40blamejs/core@0.12.34",
       "properties": [],
       "externalReferences": [
         {
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
   "components": [],
   "dependencies": [
     {
-      "ref": "@blamejs/core@0.12.32",
+      "ref": "@blamejs/core@0.12.34",
       "dependsOn": []
     }
   ]