Electron Support

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Electron versions >=23.0.0 are supported. The following support tables are for the main process. You may also import the library in the renderer process in which case the applicable support tables follow Browser support.

JSON Web Key Type Support

	Supported	kty value
RSA	✓	RSA
Elliptic Curve	✓	EC	supported curves: P-256, P-384, P-521
Octet Key Pair	✓	OKP	supported subtypes: Ed25519, X25519
Octet sequence	✓	oct

JWS Algorithm Support

	Supported	alg values
RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5	✓	RS256, RS384, RS512
RSASSA-PSS	✓	PS256, PS384, PS512
ECDSA	✓	ES256, ES384, ES512
Edwards-curve DSA	✓	EdDSA
HMAC with SHA-2	✓	HS256, HS384, HS512
Unsecured JWS	✓	none

JWE Key Management Algorithm Support

	Supported	alg values
AES GCM	✓	A128GCMKW, A192GCMKW, A256GCMKW
Direct Key Agreement	✓	dir
RSAES OAEP	✓	RSA-OAEP, RSA-OAEP-256, RSA-OAEP-384, RSA-OAEP-512
RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5	✓	RSA1_5 This algorithm is DEPRECATED and will be removed
ECDH-ES	✓	ECDH-ES

JWE Content Encryption Algorithm Support

	Supported	enc values
AES GCM	✓	A128GCM, A192GCM, A256GCM
AES CBC w/ HMAC	✓	A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, A256CBC-HS512

Unsupported Algorithms or Key Types

Due to the runtime limitations the following is not supported in Electron:

• A128KW, A192KW, and A256KW
• PBES2-HS256+A128KW, PBES2-HS384+A192KW, and PBES2-HS512+A256KW
• ECDH-ES+A128KW, ECDH-ES+A192KW, and ECDH-ES+A256KW
• secp256k1 and ES256K
• Ed448
• X448

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See also

• Browser Support
• Bun Support
• Cloudflare Workers Support
• Deno Support
• Node.js Support
• Vercel's Edge Runtime Support