Unable to generate a oct JWK with "k" property.

[whaaaley]

This code outputs the following...

JWK.generateSync('oct', 256, {
  alg: 'HS256',
  use: 'sig',
  key_ops: ['sign', 'verify']
})

{
  alg: 'HS256',
  use: 'sig',
  key_ops: [ 'sign', 'verify' ],
  kid: 'swswvFOKmCXNRyn4DCT6Ktb5Lz39dvmw2Br6C9YDES8',
  kty: 'oct'
}

I'm new to dealing with JWT and JWK at this level, so it's likely I'm missing something obvious. I can't seem to get jose to output "k" rather than "kid". I didn't want to file this as a bug; I just don't know. I've been researching but I can't find any solution. However I did find many JWK generators online, all of which include "k" instead of "kid".

Out of curiosity I saved the JWK output by jose and renamed "kid" to "k" and it signed and verified the JWT just fine.

Am I doing something wrong or is this not working as intended?

[panva]

console output is intentionally not giving out private properties by default. You can access the k property normally. You can also run key.toJWK(true) to output a JWK object with the private properties. Please see the docs.

kid is the key id, again, please read the docs.