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Azure Key Vault Sign with a Certificate's Private Key
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Signs a hash using the private key of a certificate previously imported to an Azure Key Vault.Chilkat Zig Downloads
const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");
pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
const alloc = init.arena.allocator();
// This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
// See Azure Key Vault Get Certificates for a more detailed explanation
// for how Chilkat is automatically getting the OAuth2 access token for your application.
// Provide information needed for Chilkat to automatically get an OAuth2 access token as needed.
const json = try chilkat.JsonObject.init();
defer json.deinit();
json.updateString("client_id", "APP_ID") catch {};
json.updateString("client_secret", "APP_PASSWORD") catch {};
json.updateString("resource", "https://vault.azure.net") catch {};
json.updateString("token_endpoint", "https://login.microsoftonline.com/TENANT_ID/oauth2/token") catch {};
// In this example, we'll sign the SHA256 hash of the string "This is a test"
const sb = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
defer sb.deinit();
const signed_string = "This is a test";
sb.append(signed_string) catch {};
const hash_base64url = try sb.getHash(alloc, "sha256", "base64url", "utf-8");
// We're going to send a POST to the following URL:
// POST {vaultBaseUrl}/keys/{key-or-cert-name}/{key-or-cert-version}/sign?api-version=7.4
// For example:
// POST https://VAULT_NAME.vault.azure.net/keys/CERT_NAME/CERT_VERSION/sign?api-version=7.4
//
// {
// "alg": "RS512",
// "value": "RUE3Nzg4NTQ4QjQ5RjFFN0U2NzAyQzhDNEMwMkJDOTA1MTYyOTUzNjI5NDhBNzZDQTlFOTM1NDA2M0ZGMjk2Mg"
// }
// The alg can be one of the following
// ES256 ECDSA using P-256 and SHA-256
// ES256K ECDSA using P-256K and SHA-256
// ES384 ECDSA using P-384 and SHA-384
// ES512 ECDSA using P-521 and SHA-512
// PS256 RSASSA-PSS using SHA-256 and MGF1 with SHA-256
// PS384 RSASSA-PSS using SHA-384 and MGF1 with SHA-384
// PS512 RSASSA-PSS using SHA-512 and MGF1 with SHA-512
// RS256 RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-256
// RS384 RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-384
// RS512 RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-512
// The sample POST above uses SHA512. We'll instead sign a SHA256 hash..
const json_body = try chilkat.JsonObject.init();
defer json_body.deinit();
json_body.updateString("alg", "RS256") catch {};
json_body.updateString("value", hash_base64url) catch {};
const http = try chilkat.Http.init();
defer http.deinit();
// Instead of providing an actual access token, we give Chilkat the information that allows it to
// automatically fetch the access token using the OAuth2 client credentials flow.
http.setAuthToken(try json.emit(alloc));
http.setUrlVar("certName", "importCert01") catch {};
http.setUrlVar("certVersion", "7140c8755ed14839b5d86a9f7e7f0497") catch {};
// Note: Replace "VAULT_NAME" with the name of your Azure key vault.
const url = "https://VAULT_NAME.vault.azure.net/keys/{$certName}/{$certVersion}/sign?api-version=7.4";
const resp = try chilkat.HttpResponse.init();
defer resp.deinit();
http.httpJson("POST", url, json_body, "application/json", resp) catch {
std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try http.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
return;
};
const status_code = resp.getStatusCode();
const json_resp = try chilkat.JsonObject.init();
defer json_resp.deinit();
resp.getBodyJson(json_resp) catch {};
json_resp.setEmitCompact(false);
std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try json_resp.emit(alloc)});
if (status_code != 200) {
std.debug.print("Failed.\n", .{});
return;
}
// A successful response body contains JSON like this:
// Note: Azure's documentation is not very clear, but base64url is the encoding, not "base64".
// {
// "kid": "https://kvchilkat.vault.azure.net/keys/importCert01/7140c8755ed14839b5d86a9f7e7f0497",
// "value": "JzWd2YF21gjtW ... Em37hKOQ"
// }
// Let's validate the signature using the cert's public key.
// This example will load the corresponding certificate from a local file and will verify the signature against the original data.
//
const cert = try chilkat.Cert.init();
defer cert.deinit();
cert.loadFromFile("qa_data/certs/chilkat_code_signing_2024.cer") catch {
std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try cert.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
return;
};
const rsa = try chilkat.Rsa.init();
defer rsa.deinit();
// Tell the RSA object to use the cert's public key.
rsa.setX509Cert(cert, false) catch {
std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rsa.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
return;
};
// Verify the signature using the cert's public key against the original string.
rsa.setEncodingMode("base64url");
const valid = if (rsa.verifyStringENC(signed_string, "sha-256", try json_resp.stringOf(alloc, "value"))) true else |_| false;
std.debug.print("signature valid = {}\n", .{valid});
}