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Azure Key Vault Sign with a Certificate's Private Key

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Signs a hash using the private key of a certificate previously imported to an Azure Key Vault.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoJson
    Handle hoSb
    String sSignedString
    String sHash_base64url
    Variant vJsonBody
    Handle hoJsonBody
    Handle hoHttp
    String sUrl
    Variant vResp
    Handle hoResp
    Integer iStatusCode
    Variant vJsonResp
    Handle hoJsonResp
    Variant vCert
    Handle hoCert
    Handle hoRsa
    Boolean iValid
    String sTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    // This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // See Azure Key Vault Get Certificates for a more detailed explanation
    // for how Chilkat is automatically getting the OAuth2 access token for your application.

    // Provide information needed for Chilkat to automatically get an OAuth2 access token as needed.
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatJsonObject)) To hoJson
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoJson))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoJson
    End
    Get ComUpdateString Of hoJson "client_id" "APP_ID" To iSuccess
    Get ComUpdateString Of hoJson "client_secret" "APP_PASSWORD" To iSuccess
    Get ComUpdateString Of hoJson "resource" "https://vault.azure.net" To iSuccess
    Get ComUpdateString Of hoJson "token_endpoint" "https://login.microsoftonline.com/TENANT_ID/oauth2/token" To iSuccess

    // In this example, we'll sign the SHA256 hash of the string "This is a test"
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatStringBuilder)) To hoSb
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoSb))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoSb
    End
    Move "This is a test" To sSignedString
    Get ComAppend Of hoSb sSignedString To iSuccess
    Get ComGetHash Of hoSb "sha256" "base64url" "utf-8" To sHash_base64url

    // We're going to send a POST to the following URL:
    // POST {vaultBaseUrl}/keys/{key-or-cert-name}/{key-or-cert-version}/sign?api-version=7.4

    // For example:

    // POST https://VAULT_NAME.vault.azure.net/keys/CERT_NAME/CERT_VERSION/sign?api-version=7.4
    // 
    // {
    //   "alg": "RS512",
    //   "value": "RUE3Nzg4NTQ4QjQ5RjFFN0U2NzAyQzhDNEMwMkJDOTA1MTYyOTUzNjI5NDhBNzZDQTlFOTM1NDA2M0ZGMjk2Mg"
    // }

    // The alg can be one of the following
    // ES256  ECDSA using P-256 and SHA-256
    // ES256K ECDSA using P-256K and SHA-256
    // ES384  ECDSA using P-384 and SHA-384
    // ES512  ECDSA using P-521 and SHA-512
    // PS256  RSASSA-PSS using SHA-256 and MGF1 with SHA-256
    // PS384  RSASSA-PSS using SHA-384 and MGF1 with SHA-384
    // PS512  RSASSA-PSS using SHA-512 and MGF1 with SHA-512
    // RS256  RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-256
    // RS384  RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-384
    // RS512  RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-512

    // The sample POST above uses SHA512.  We'll instead sign a SHA256 hash..

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatJsonObject)) To hoJsonBody
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoJsonBody))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoJsonBody
    End
    Get ComUpdateString Of hoJsonBody "alg" "RS256" To iSuccess
    Get ComUpdateString Of hoJsonBody "value" sHash_base64url To iSuccess

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatHttp)) To hoHttp
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoHttp))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoHttp
    End

    // Instead of providing an actual access token, we give Chilkat the information that allows it to 
    // automatically fetch the access token using the OAuth2 client credentials flow.
    Get ComEmit Of hoJson To sTemp1
    Set ComAuthToken Of hoHttp To sTemp1

    Get ComSetUrlVar Of hoHttp "certName" "importCert01" To iSuccess
    Get ComSetUrlVar Of hoHttp "certVersion" "7140c8755ed14839b5d86a9f7e7f0497" To iSuccess
    // Note: Replace "VAULT_NAME" with the name of your Azure key vault.
    Move "https://VAULT_NAME.vault.azure.net/keys/{$certName}/{$certVersion}/sign?api-version=7.4" To sUrl
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatHttpResponse)) To hoResp
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoResp))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoResp
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoJsonBody to vJsonBody
    Get pvComObject of hoResp to vResp
    Get ComHttpJson Of hoHttp "POST" sUrl vJsonBody "application/json" vResp To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoHttp To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get ComStatusCode Of hoResp To iStatusCode

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatJsonObject)) To hoJsonResp
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoJsonResp))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoJsonResp
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoJsonResp to vJsonResp
    Get ComGetBodyJson Of hoResp vJsonResp To iSuccess

    Set ComEmitCompact Of hoJsonResp To False
    Get ComEmit Of hoJsonResp To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1

    If (iStatusCode <> 200) Begin
        Showln "Failed."
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // A successful response body contains JSON like this:
    // Note: Azure's documentation is not very clear, but base64url is the encoding, not "base64".
    // {
    //   "kid": "https://kvchilkat.vault.azure.net/keys/importCert01/7140c8755ed14839b5d86a9f7e7f0497",
    //   "value": "JzWd2YF21gjtW ... Em37hKOQ"
    // }

    // Let's validate the signature using the cert's public key.
    // This example will load the corresponding certificate from a local file and will verify the signature against the original data.
    // 
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatCert)) To hoCert
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoCert))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoCert
    End
    Get ComLoadFromFile Of hoCert "qa_data/certs/chilkat_code_signing_2024.cer" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoCert To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatRsa)) To hoRsa
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoRsa))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoRsa
    End
    // Tell the RSA object to use the cert's public key.
    Get pvComObject of hoCert to vCert
    Get ComSetX509Cert Of hoRsa vCert False To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoRsa To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // Verify the signature using the cert's public key against the original string.
    Set ComEncodingMode Of hoRsa To "base64url"
    Get ComStringOf Of hoJsonResp "value" To sTemp1
    Get ComVerifyStringENC Of hoRsa sSignedString "sha-256" sTemp1 To iValid
    Showln "signature valid = " iValid


End_Procedure