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KeyAPI is a simple library to create and unpackage opaque encrypted tokens for services that require user authentication

KeyAPI provides a mechanism for Triton to securely pass information in and out of the system using tokens.

Using KeyAPI

POST: /token

As "Content-Type: application/json", POST a json object to the /token endpoint

will return a tokenized json object with the "data" and "hash" fields set

POST: /detoken

As "Content-Type: application/json", POST a token object to /detoken

returns a JSON object, the contents of the token