Electron Support

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Note

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.

Electron releases with Node.js LTS Codename Iron (v20.x) and newer are supported.

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, Ed25519
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
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 use of Web Cryptography API and 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
• RSA1_5
• secp256k1 / 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