flaskhmac 1.2.1

Provides easy integration of the HMAC signatures for your REST Flask Applications.

This module provides an authentication to Flask routes. The intended use case is for use with REST APIs. It’s simply designed to check that a client is entitled to access a particular route in a Flask application, based on the fact that it must possess a copy of the secret key.

Usage

Server

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['HMAC_KEY'] = 's3cr3tk3y'  # define the secret key in an app config


@app.route("/no_auth_view")
def no_auth_view():
    return "no_auth_view"


@app.route("/hmac_auth_view")
@hmac.auth()  # decorate view
def hmac_auth_view():
    return "hmac_auth_view"

@app.route("/hmac_auth_view")
@hmac.auth(only=["foo"])  # decorate view, only allows foo client access
def hmac_auth_view():
    return "hmac_auth_view"

Client

Call without payload

sig = hmac.make_hmac()  # generate signature
response = requests.get(
    '/hmac_auth_view',
    headers={hmac.header: sig}
)

You can also use multiple keys between different applications. Secret keys are stored in HMAC_KEYS in the app settings as a dictionary:

app.config['HMAC_KEYS'] = {
    'aservice': 'akey',
    'bservice': 'bkey'
}

Then the secret key has to generated with make_hmac_for method.

hmac.make_hmac_for('aservice', request_data)  # data is optional

# signature validation for multiple keys

hmac.validate_service_signature(request)

Call with payload

Request payload has to be used as a data for HMAC generation.

data = json.dumps({'foo': 'boo'})

sig = hmac.make_hmac(data)  # generate signature
response = requests.post(
    '/hmac_auth_view',
    data=data,
    headers={hmac.header: sig}
)

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You can define custom errors overwriting abort method:

class MyHmac(Hmac):

    def abort(self):
        message = {'status': '403', 'message': 'not authorized'}
        response = jsonify(message)
        response.status_code = 403
        return response

For HMAC auth of all views you can use Flask’s before_request:

@app.before_request
def before_request():
    try:
        hmac.validate_signature(request)
    except HmacException:
        return abort(400)

Generate signature for/from another application:

sig = make_hmac(self, data, key=another_app_key)

Change Log

1.2.1

• New HMAC_ERROR_CODE configuration option to allow different HTTP Status code responses on failure

1.2

• BREAKING CHANGE: @hmac.auth decorator now needs to be called as @hmac.auth()

• New only argument for @hmac.auth() to only allow specific clients access

1.1.2

• Swaps urlsafe_b64encode for b64encode

1.1.1

• Support multiple keys

0.1.1

• Able to change secret key in make_hmac method

• Method validate_signature created which can be used outside of Hmac class

• Custom exceptions

0.0.1

• Initial release including the core feature set