HTTP Message Signatures

An implementation of HTTP Message Signatures from RFC 9421.

HTTP signaturs are a mechanism for signing and verifying HTTP requests and responses.

Supported Features

The full specification is supported with the exception of the following. File a ticket or PR and support will be added Planned but not currently supported features:

• JWS algorithms
• Header parameters including trailers

net/http integration

Create net/http clients that sign requests and/or verifies repsonses.

	params := httpsig.SigningOptions{
		PrivateKey: nil, // Fill in your private key
		Algorithm:  httpsig.Algo_ECDSA_P256_SHA256,
		Fields:     httpsig.DefaultRequiredFields,
		Metadata:   []httpsig.Metadata{httpsig.MetaKeyID},
		MetaKeyID:  "key123",
	}

	// Create the signature signer
	signer, _ := httpsig.NewSigner(params)

	// Create a net/http Client that signs all requests
	signingClient := httpsig.NewHTTPClient(nil, signer, nil)

Create net/http Handlers that verify incoming requests to the server.

	myhandler := http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		// Lookup the results of verification
		if veriftyResult, ok := httpsig.GetVerifyResult(r.Context()); ok {
			keyid, _ := veriftyResult.KeyID()
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, %s", keyid)
		} else {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, %q", html.EscapeString(r.URL.Path))
		}
	})

	// Create a verifier
	verifier, _ := httpsig.NewVerifier(nil, httpsig.DefaultVerifyProfile)

	mux := http.NewServeMux()
	// Wrap the handler with the a signature verification handler.
	mux.Handle("/", httpsig.NewHandler(myhandler, verifier))

Stability

The public interface may change slightly before the v1 release.

References

• RFC 9421
• OAuth support
• Interactive UI