jws.go

/*
Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/

package bootstrap

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	jose "github.com/square/go-jose"
)

// computeDetachedSig takes content and token details and computes a detached
// JWS signature.  This is described in Appendix F of RFC 7515.  Basically, this
// is a regular JWS with the content part of the signature elided.
func computeDetachedSig(content, tokenID, tokenSecret string) (string, error) {
	jwk := &jose.JsonWebKey{
		Key:   []byte(tokenSecret),
		KeyID: tokenID,
	}

	signer, err := jose.NewSigner(jose.HS256, jwk)
	if err != nil {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("can't make a HS256 signer from the given token: %v", err)
	}

	jws, err := signer.Sign([]byte(content))
	if err != nil {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("can't HS256-sign the given token: %v", err)
	}

	fullSig, err := jws.CompactSerialize()
	if err != nil {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("can't serialize the given token: %v", err)
	}
	return stripContent(fullSig)
}

// stripContent will remove the content part of a compact JWS
//
// The `go-jose` library doesn't support generating signatures with "detatched"
// content. To make up for this we take the full compact signature, break it
// apart and put it back together without the content section.
func stripContent(fullSig string) (string, error) {
	parts := strings.Split(fullSig, ".")
	if len(parts) != 3 {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("compact JWS format must have three parts")
	}

	return parts[0] + ".." + parts[2], nil
}

// DetachedTokenIsValid checks whether a given detached JWS-encoded token matches JWS output of the given content and token
func DetachedTokenIsValid(detachedToken, content, tokenID, tokenSecret string) bool {
	newToken, err := computeDetachedSig(content, tokenID, tokenSecret)
	if err != nil {
		return false
	}
	return detachedToken == newToken
}