I have a PHP backend and an Android client. With the client the users can log into my app using either Google or Facebook, both via Firebase. I get the token from the FirebaseUser
and send it to my server. It is straightforward that the first section (the header) contains the algorithm (which is RS256) and the second one (the payload) has all the user related data. There's a third section which is the signature of the first two to enable verification on my backend. The problem is, I don't know how to do that. More specifically with what.
I used JWT.io to check my token and tried to verify it with no luck. Since the algorithm used is RS256, the verification should be done via the public key. But what public key? I tried with my app's keystore, tried it with Google's certs, but it just keeps saying it's invalid. I understand that the header's kid
field is the signing key's ID and I should look for it, but I don't know where.
The Firebase docs don't help either. There is a guide about ID token verification, but that's just useless because it's Java / Node.JS and it still doesn't say anything about public keys.
So the question is: where do I get the public keys from?