hmac_authentication Python package

Signs and authenticates HTTP requests based on a shared-secret HMAC signature.

Developed in parallel with the following packages for other languages:

• Go: github.com/18F/hmacauth
• Ruby: hmac_authentication
• Node.js: hmac-authentication

Installation

$ pip install hmac-authentication

Validating incoming requests

Inject something resembling the following code fragment into your request handling logic as the first thing that happens before the request body is parsed, where headers is a list of headers factored into the signature and secret_key is the shared secret between your application and the service making the request:

...coming soon...

Signing outgoing requests

...coming soon...

Running tests

$ pip install nose
$ nosetests

Public domain

This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.