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Fix 'cert' token which isn't a cert (#554)
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Certs have pubkeys. We sign things with private keys.
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mikemaccana authored and ziluvatar committed Feb 13, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ var token = jwt.sign({ foo: 'bar' }, 'shhhhh');
Synchronous Sign with RSA SHA256
```js
// sign with RSA SHA256
var cert = fs.readFileSync('private.key');
var token = jwt.sign({ foo: 'bar' }, cert, { algorithm: 'RS256'});
var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('private.key');
var token = jwt.sign({ foo: 'bar' }, privateKey, { algorithm: 'RS256'});
```

Sign asynchronously
```js
jwt.sign({ foo: 'bar' }, cert, { algorithm: 'RS256' }, function(err, token) {
jwt.sign({ foo: 'bar' }, privateKey, { algorithm: 'RS256' }, function(err, token) {
console.log(token);
});
```
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