secret-token 1.1.0

Easy manipulation of RFC8959 secret-token URIs

secret-token

This is a utility library for working with RFC8959 secret-token URIs.

It provides 3 functions:

• encode - Encodes a generated secret into a URI
• decode - Decodes a URI for passing secrets to systems that do not support URI data
• validate - Checks if a secret-token URI is conforms to the spec

There are two main expected use cases for this library:

1. Creating a service that generates and validates user secrets such as an API server. As per the RFC all secrets should be stored at rest encoded as URIs, so the encode function is used immediately after generating tokens and the validate function is called when recieving tokens from users.
2. Use in a service that talks to external services that do not support RFC8959 but where you would like to store all your secrets using it. For example, in an environment with an appropriate secret token present:

export API_TOKEN='secret-token:E92FB7EB-D882-47A4-A265-A0B6135DC842%20foo'

The decoding code will look like this:

import os

import secret_token

API_TOKEN = secret_token.decode(os.environ.get["API_TOKEN"])
print(API_TOKEN)

The code prints

E92FB7EB-D882-47A4-A265-A0B6135DC842 foo