PowerShell Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Signing HTTP Messages

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Demonstrates how to sign HTTP messages per draft-cavage-http-signatures-10 PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$bCrlf = $true
$sbPublicKeyPem = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbPublicKeyPem.AppendLine("-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----",$bCrlf)
$sbPublicKeyPem.AppendLine("MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDCFENGw33yGihy92pDjZQhl0C3",$bCrlf)
$sbPublicKeyPem.AppendLine("6rPJj+CvfSC8+q28hxA161QFNUd13wuCTUcq0Qd2qsBe/2hFyc2DCJJg0h1L78+6",$bCrlf)
$sbPublicKeyPem.AppendLine("Z4UMR7EOcpfdUE9Hf3m/hs+FUR45uBJeDK1HSFHD8bHKD6kv8FPGfJTotc+2xjJw",$bCrlf)
$sbPublicKeyPem.AppendLine("oYi+1hqp1fIekaxsyQIDAQAB",$bCrlf)
$sbPublicKeyPem.AppendLine("-----END PUBLIC KEY-----",$bCrlf)

$pubKey = New-Object Chilkat.PublicKey
$pubKey.LoadFromString($sbPublicKeyPem.GetAsString())

$sbPrivateKeyPem = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("MIICXgIBAAKBgQDCFENGw33yGihy92pDjZQhl0C36rPJj+CvfSC8+q28hxA161QF",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("NUd13wuCTUcq0Qd2qsBe/2hFyc2DCJJg0h1L78+6Z4UMR7EOcpfdUE9Hf3m/hs+F",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("UR45uBJeDK1HSFHD8bHKD6kv8FPGfJTotc+2xjJwoYi+1hqp1fIekaxsyQIDAQAB",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("AoGBAJR8ZkCUvx5kzv+utdl7T5MnordT1TvoXXJGXK7ZZ+UuvMNUCdN2QPc4sBiA",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("QWvLw1cSKt5DsKZ8UETpYPy8pPYnnDEz2dDYiaew9+xEpubyeW2oH4Zx71wqBtOK",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("kqwrXa/pzdpiucRRjk6vE6YY7EBBs/g7uanVpGibOVAEsqH1AkEA7DkjVH28WDUg",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("f1nqvfn2Kj6CT7nIcE3jGJsZZ7zlZmBmHFDONMLUrXR/Zm3pR5m0tCmBqa5RK95u",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("412jt1dPIwJBANJT3v8pnkth48bQo/fKel6uEYyboRtA5/uHuHkZ6FQF7OUkGogc",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("mSJluOdc5t6hI1VsLn0QZEjQZMEOWr+wKSMCQQCC4kXJEsHAve77oP6HtG/IiEn7",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("kpyUXRNvFsDE0czpJJBvL/aRFUJxuRK91jhjC68sA7NsKMGg5OXb5I5Jj36xAkEA",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("gIT7aFOYBFwGgQAQkWNKLvySgKbAZRTeLBacpHMuQdl1DfdntvAyqpAZ0lY0RKmW",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("G6aFKaqQfOXKCyWoUiVknQJAXrlgySFci/2ueKlIE1QqIiLSZ8V8OlpFLRnb1pzI",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("7U1yQXnTAEFYM560yJlzUpOb1V4cScGd365tiSMvxLOvTA==",$bCrlf)
$sbPrivateKeyPem.AppendLine("-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----",$bCrlf)

$privKey = New-Object Chilkat.PrivateKey
$privKey.LoadPem($sbPrivateKeyPem.GetAsString())

#     All examples use this request:
#  
#     POST /foo?param=value&pet=dog HTTP/1.1
#     Host: example.com
#     Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:31:40 GMT
#     Content-Type: application/json
#     Digest: SHA-256=X48E9qOokqqrvdts8nOJRJN3OWDUoyWxBf7kbu9DBPE=
#     Content-Length: 18
#  
#     {"hello": "world"}

#  C.1.  Default Test
#  
#     If a list of headers is not included, the date is the only header
#     that is signed by default.  The string to sign would be:
#  
#     date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:31:40 GMT
#  
#     The Authorization header would be:
#  
#     Authorization: Signature keyId="Test",algorithm="rsa-sha256",
#     signature="SjWJWbWN7i0wzBvtPl8rbASWz5xQW6mcJmn+ibttBqtifLN7Sazz
#     6m79cNfwwb8DMJ5cou1s7uEGKKCs+FLEEaDV5lp7q25WqS+lavg7T8hc0GppauB
#     6hbgEKTwblDHYGEtbGmtdHgVCk9SuS13F0hZ8FD0k/5OxEPXe5WozsbM="
#  
#     The Signature header would be:
#  
#     Signature: keyId="Test",algorithm="rsa-sha256",
#     signature="SjWJWbWN7i0wzBvtPl8rbASWz5xQW6mcJmn+ibttBqtifLN7Sazz
#     6m79cNfwwb8DMJ5cou1s7uEGKKCs+FLEEaDV5lp7q25WqS+lavg7T8hc0GppauB
#     6hbgEKTwblDHYGEtbGmtdHgVCk9SuS13F0hZ8FD0k/5OxEPXe5WozsbM="
#  

$dtNow = New-Object Chilkat.CkDateTime
$success = $dtNow.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
$dateStr = $dtNow.GetAsRfc822($false)

#  To duplicate the above result, we'll hard-code the date string.
$dateStr = "Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:31:40 GMT"

$rsa = New-Object Chilkat.Rsa
$success = $rsa.UsePrivateKey($privKey)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rsa.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$sbStringToSign = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbStringToSign.Append("date: ")
$sbStringToSign.Append($dateStr)

$rsa.EncodingMode = "base64"
$b64Signature = $rsa.SignStringENC($sbStringToSign.GetAsString(),"SHA256")
$($b64Signature)
$("---------------------------")

#  The result should be:
#  SjWJWbWN7i0wzBvtPl8rbASW ... FD0k/5OxEPXe5WozsbM=

#  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#  C.2.  Basic Test
#  
#     The minimum recommended data to sign is the (request-target), host,
#     and date.  In this case, the string to sign would be:
#  
#     (request-target): post /foo?param=value&pet=dog
#     host: example.com
#     date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:31:40 GMT
#  
#     The Authorization header would be:
#  
#     Authorization: Signature keyId="Test",algorithm="rsa-sha256",
#     headers="(request-target) host date", signature="qdx+H7PHHDZgy4
#     y/Ahn9Tny9V3GP6YgBPyUXMmoxWtLbHpUnXS2mg2+SbrQDMCJypxBLSPQR2aAjn
#     7ndmw2iicw3HMbe8VfEdKFYRqzic+efkb3nndiv/x1xSHDJWeSWkx3ButlYSuBs
#     kLu6kd9Fswtemr3lgdDEmn04swr2Os0="

$sbStringToSign.Clear()
$sbStringToSign.Append("(request-target): ")
$sbStringToSign.AppendLine("post /foo?param=value&pet=dog",$false)
$sbStringToSign.Append("host: ")
$sbStringToSign.AppendLine("example.com",$false)
$sbStringToSign.Append("date: ")
$sbStringToSign.Append($dateStr)

$("StringToSign:")
$($sbStringToSign.GetAsString())
$b64Signature = $rsa.SignStringENC($sbStringToSign.GetAsString(),"SHA256")
$($b64Signature)
$("---------------------------")

#  The result should be:
#  qdx+H7PHHDZgy4y/Ahn ... mn04swr2Os0=