kwapi/kwapi/security.py

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Author: François Rossigneux <francois.rossigneux@inria.fr>
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
# a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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# under the License.
"""Computes the signature of a metering message."""
import hashlib
import hmac
def recursive_keypairs(d):
"""Generator that produces sequence of keypairs for nested dictionaries."""
for name, value in sorted(d.iteritems()):
if isinstance(value, dict):
for subname, subvalue in recursive_keypairs(value):
yield ('%s:%s' % (name, subname), subvalue)
else:
yield name, value
def compute_signature(message, secret):
"""Returns the signature for a message dictionary."""
digest_maker = hmac.new(secret, '', hashlib.sha256)
for name, value in recursive_keypairs(message):
if name == 'message_signature':
continue
digest_maker.update(name)
digest_maker.update(unicode(value).encode('utf-8'))
return digest_maker.hexdigest()
def append_signature(message, secret):
"""Sets the message signature key."""
message['message_signature'] = compute_signature(message, secret)
def verify_signature(message, secret):
"""Checks the signature in the message against the value computed from the
rest of the contents.
"""
old_sig = message.get('message_signature')
new_sig = compute_signature(message, secret)
return new_sig == old_sig