Please refer to JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants for further details on https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7523#section-2.2[JWT Bearer] Client Authentication.
The default implementation for JWT Bearer Client Authentication is `NimbusJwtClientAuthenticationParametersConverter`,
which is a `Converter` that customizes the Token Request parameters by adding
a signed JSON Web Token (JWS) in the `client_assertion` parameter.
The `java.security.PrivateKey` or `javax.crypto.SecretKey` used for signing the JWS
is supplied by the `com.nimbusds.jose.jwk.JWK` resolver associated with `NimbusJwtClientAuthenticationParametersConverter`.
=== Authenticate using `private_key_jwt`
Given the following Spring Boot 2.x properties for an OAuth 2.0 Client registration:
[source,yaml]
----
spring:
security:
oauth2:
client:
registration:
okta:
client-id: okta-client-id
client-authentication-method: private_key_jwt
authorization-grant-type: authorization_code
...
----
The following example shows how to configure `WebClientReactiveAuthorizationCodeTokenResponseClient`:
The JWT produced by `NimbusJwtClientAuthenticationParametersConverter` contains the `iss`, `sub`, `aud`, `jti`, `iat` and `exp` claims by default. You can customize the headers and/or claims by providing a `Consumer<NimbusJwtClientAuthenticationParametersConverter.JwtClientAuthenticationContext<T>>` to `setJwtClientAssertionCustomizer()`. The following example shows how to customize claims of the JWT: