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Castle protects your users from account compromise

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Castle analyzes device, location, and interaction patterns in your web and mobile apps and lets you stop account takeover attacks in real-time.

Installation

pip install castle

Configuration

Import and configure the library with your Castle API secret.

from castle.configuration import configuration, DEFAULT_ALLOWLIST

# Same as setting it through Castle.api_secret
configuration.api_secret = ':YOUR-API-SECRET'

# For authenticate method you can set failover strategies: allow(default), deny, challenge, throw
configuration.failover_strategy = 'deny'

# Castle::RequestError is raised when timing out in milliseconds (default: 1000 milliseconds)
configuration.request_timeout = 1500

# Base Castle API url
# configuration.base_url = "https://api.castle.io/v1"

# Logger (need to respond to info method) - logs Castle API requests and responses
# configuration.logger = logging.getLogger()

# Allowlisted and Denylisted headers are case insensitive
# and allow to use _ and - as a separator, http prefixes are removed
# By default all headers are passed, but some are automatically scrubbed.
# If you need to apply an allowlist, we recommend using the minimum set of
# standard headers that we've exposed in the `DEFAULT_ALLOWLIST` constant.
# Allowlisted headers
configuration.allowlisted = DEFAULT_ALLOWLIST + ['X_HEADER']

# Denylisted headers take advantage over allowlisted elements. Note that
# some headers are always scrubbed, for security reasons.
configuration.denylisted = ['HTTP-X-header']

# Castle needs the original IP of the client, not the IP of your proxy or load balancer.
# The SDK will only trust the proxy chain as defined in the configuration.
# We try to fetch the client IP based on X-Forwarded-For or Remote-Addr headers in that order,
# but sometimes the client IP may be stored in a different header or order.
# The SDK can be configured to look for the client IP address in headers that you specify.

# Sometimes, Cloud providers do not use consistent IP addresses to proxy requests.
# In this case, the client IP is usually preserved in a custom header. Example:
# Cloudflare preserves the client request in the 'Cf-Connecting-Ip' header.
# It would be used like so: configuration.ip_headers=['Cf-Connecting-Ip']
configuration.ip_headers = []

# If the specified header or X-Forwarded-For default contains a proxy chain with public IP addresses,
# then you must choose only one of the following (but not both):
# 1. The trusted_proxies value must match the known proxy IPs. This option is preferable if the IP is static.
# 2. The trusted_proxy_depth value must be set to the number of known trusted proxies in the chain (see below).
# This option is preferable if the IPs are ephemeral, but the depth is consistent.

# Additionally to make X-Forwarded-For and other headers work better discovering client ip address,
# and not the address of a reverse proxy server, you can define trusted proxies
# which will help to fetch proper ip from those headers

# In order to extract the client IP of the X-Forwarded-For header
# and not the address of a reverse proxy server, you must define all trusted public proxies
# you can achieve this by listing all the proxies ip defined by string or regular expressions
# in the trusted_proxies setting
configuration.trusted_proxies = []
# or by providing number of trusted proxies used in the chain
configuration.trusted_proxy_depth = 0
# note that you must pick one approach over the other.

# If there is no possibility to define options above and there is no other header that holds the client IP,
# then you may set trust_proxy_chain = true to trust all of the proxy IPs in X-Forwarded-For
configuration.trust_proxy_chain = false
# *Warning*: this mode is highly promiscuous and could lead to wrongly trusting a spoofed IP if the request passes through a malicious proxy

# *Note: the default list of proxies that are always marked as "trusted" can be found in: Castle::Configuration::TRUSTED_PROXIES

Multi-environment configuration

It is also possible to define multiple configs within one application.

from castle.configuration import Configuration

# Initialize new instance of Castle::Configuration
config = Configuration()
config.api_secret = ':YOUR-API-SECRET'

After a successful setup, you can pass the config to any API command as follows:

from castle.api.get_device import APIGetDevice

# Get device data
APIGetDevice.call(device_token, config)

Tracking

Here is a simple example of track event.

from castle.client import Client

castle = Client.from_request(request)
castle.track({
  'event': '$login.succeeded',
  'user_id': 'user_id'
})

The client will automatically configure the context for each request.

Signature

from secure_mode import signature

signature(user_id)

will create a signed user_id.

Async tracking

By default Castle sends requests synchronously. To send requests in a background worker you can generate data for a worker:

from castle.payload.prepare import PayloadPrepare

payload = PayloadPrepare.call(
    {
      'event': '$login.succeeded',
      'user_id': user.id,
      'properties': { 'key': 'value' },
      'user_traits': { 'key': 'value' }
    },
    request
)

and use it later in a way

from castle.client import Client

client = Client(context)
client.track(options)

Events

List of Recognized Events can be found in the docs.

Device management

This SDK allows issuing requests to Castle’s Device Management Endpoints. Use these endpoints for admin-level management of end-user devices (i.e., for an internal dashboard).

Fetching device data, approving a device, reporting a device requires a valid device_token.

from castle.api.get_device import APIGetDevice

# Get device data
APIGetDevice.call(device_token)
from castle.api.approve_device import APIApproveDevice

# Approve a device
APIApproveDevice.call(device_token)
from castle.api.report_device import APIReportDevice

# Report a device
APIReportDevice.call(device_token)

Fetching available devices that belong to a given user requires a valid user_id.

from castle.api.get_devices_for_user import APIGetDevicesForUser

# Get user's devices data
APIGetDevicesForUser.call(user_id)

Exceptions

CastleError will be thrown if the Castle API returns a 400 or a 500 level HTTP response. You can also choose to catch a more finegrained error.

Webhooks

Castle uses webhooks to notify about $incident.confirmed or $review.opened events. Each webhook has X-Castle-Signature header that allows verifying webhook’s source.

from castle.webhooks.verify import WebhooksVerify

# Verify the webhook, passed as a Request object
WebhooksVerify.call(webhook_request)
# WebhookVerificationError is raised when the signature is not matching

Documentation

Documentation and links to additional resources are available at https://castle.io/docs

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