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JWT claim extraction without signature validation?

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Hi, I'm working on a rate limiting use case where I need to extract claims from JWTs and pass them as headers to upstream services, but I don't need (or want) signature validation.

My situation:

  • Need to extract claims like username, plan_name, etc. and forward as HTTP headers
  • Upstream service does not support JWKS at this time
  • Currently using a Lua filter to parse JWT manually, but would prefer using the built-in JWT filter

Question: Is there any way to configure the envoy.filters.http.jwt_authn filter to extract JWT claims to headers WITHOUT validating the signature?

I've tried setting up the JWT filter with empty JWKS and allow_missing_or_failed, but I get "Jwt header [alg] is not supported" errors.

Thanks!

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