validatesns 0.1

Validate integrity of Amazon SNS messages

Validate integrity of Amazon SNS messages.

• Verifies cryptographic signature.

• Checks signing certificate is hosted on an Amazon-controlled URL.

• Requires message be no older than one hour, the maximum lifetime of an SNS message.

Licence: MIT.

Quick start

$ pip install validatesns

import validatesns

# Raise validatesns.ValidationError if message is invalid.
validatesns.validate(decoded_json_message_from_sns)

Gotchas

The validate function downloads the signing certificate on every call. For performance reasons, it’s worth caching certificates - you can do this by passing in a get_certificate_str function.

This takes a url, and returns the certificate content. Your function could cache to the filesystem, a database, or wherever makes sense.

Contribute

Github: https://github.com/nathforge/validatesns