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HS256 algorithm JWT sign returning RS256 Algorithm instead of HS256

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
authentication, security

Research direction

Start by reproducing the report with jwt.sign using HS256 and a secret on node-jsonwebtoken 9.0.2. Check the resulting JWT algorithm and the authentication failure described in the issue. Done means HS256 signing produces the expected HS256 algorithm without the reported fatal error.

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Description

When using jwt sign with HS256 algorithm and secret instead of returning HS265 it returned RS256. JWT that I'm using is version 9.0.2. I hope it can be solve sooner because it fatal errors to create bugs in authentication.

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