(Perl) ECDSA Sign and Verify

Demonstrates how to create an ECDSA signature on the SHA256 hash of some data, and then verify.

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use chilkat();

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# First load an ECDSA private key to be used for signing.
$privKey = chilkat::CkPrivateKey->new();
$success = $privKey->LoadEncryptedPemFile("qa_data/ecc/secp256r1-key-pkcs8-secret.pem","secret");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $privKey->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Sign the SHA256 hash of some data.
$bd = chilkat::CkBinData->new();
$success = $bd->LoadFile("qa_data/hamlet.xml");
if ($success == 0) {
    print "Failed to load file to be hashed." . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$crypt = chilkat::CkCrypt2->new();
$crypt->put_HashAlgorithm("sha256");
$crypt->put_EncodingMode("base64");
$hashStr = $crypt->hashBdENC($bd);

$ecdsa = chilkat::CkEcc->new();
$prng = chilkat::CkPrng->new();
# Returns ASN.1 signature as a base64 string.
$sig = $ecdsa->signHashENC($hashStr,"base64",$privKey,$prng);
print "sig = " . $sig . "\r\n";

# The signature is in ASN.1 format (which may be described as the "encoded DSS signature").
# SEQUENCE (2 elem)
#   INTEGER (255 bit) 4849395540832462044300553275435608522154141569743642905628579547100940...
#   INTEGER (255 bit) 3680701124244788134409868118208591399799457104230118295614152238560005...

# If you wish, you can get the r and s components of the signature like this:
$asn = chilkat::CkAsn->new();
$asn->LoadEncoded($sig,"base64");
$xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();
$xml->LoadXml($asn->asnToXml());

print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";

# We now have this:
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
# <sequence>
#     <int>6650D422D86BA4A228B5617604E59052591B9B2C32EF324C44D09EF67E5F0060</int>
#     <int>0CFD9F6AC85042FC70F672C141BA6B2A4CAFBB906C3D907BCCC1BED62B28326F</int>
# </sequence>

# Get the "r" and "s" as hex strings
$r = $xml->getChildContentByIndex(0);
$s = $xml->getChildContentByIndex(1);

print "r = " . $r . "\r\n";
print "s = " . $s . "\r\n";

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Now verify against the hash of the original data.

# Get the corresponding public key.
$pubKey = chilkat::CkPublicKey->new();
$success = $pubKey->LoadFromFile("qa_data/ecc/secp256r1-pub.pem");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $pubKey->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# We already have the SHA256 hash of the original data (hashStr) so no need to re-do it..
$ecc2 = chilkat::CkEcc->new();
$result = $ecc2->VerifyHashENC($hashStr,$sig,"base64",$pubKey);
if ($result != 1) {
    print $ecc2->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Verified!" . "\r\n";

# Note: If we have only r,s and wish to reconstruct the ASN.1 signature, we do it like this:
$xml2 = chilkat::CkXml->new();
$xml2->put_Tag("sequence");
$xml2->NewChild2("int",$r);
$xml2->NewChild2("int",$s);

$asn2 = chilkat::CkAsn->new();
$asn2->LoadAsnXml($xml2->getXml());
$encodedSig = $asn2->getEncodedDer("base64");
print "encoded DSS signature: " . $encodedSig . "\r\n";

# You can go to https://lapo.it/asn1js/  and copy/paste the base64 encodedSig into the online tool, then press the "decode" button.
# You will see the ASN.1 such as this:

# SEQUENCE (2 elem)
#   INTEGER (255 bit) 4849395540832462044300553275435608522154141569743642905628579547100940...
#   INTEGER (255 bit) 3680701124244788134409868118208591399799457104230118295614152238560005...