PHP ActiveX Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Verify Signature of Alexa Custom Skill Request

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This example verifies the signature of an Alexa Custom Skill Request. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

//  This example assumes you have a web service that will receive requests from Alexa.
//  A sample request sent by Alexa will look like the following:

//  Connection: Keep-Alive
//  Content-Length: 2583
//  Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
//  Accept: application/json
//  Accept-Charset: utf-8
//  Host: your.web.server.com
//  User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.x (Java/1.8.0_172)
//  Signature: dSUmPwxc9...aKAf8mpEXg==
//  SignatureCertChainUrl: https://s3.amazonaws.com/echo.api/echo-api-cert-6-ats.pem
//  
//  {"version":"1.0","session":{"new":true,"sessionId":"amzn1.echo-api.session.433 ... }}

//  First, assume we've written code to get the 3 pieces of data we need:
$signature = 'dSUmPwxc9...aKAf8mpEXg==';
$certChainUrl = 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/echo.api/echo-api-cert-6-ats.pem';
$jsonBody = '{\'version\':\'1.0\',\'session\':{\'new\':true,\'sessionId\':\'amzn1.echo-api.session.433 ... }}';

//  To validate the signature, we do the following:

//  First, download the PEM-encoded X.509 certificate chain that Alexa used to sign the message 
$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");
$sbPem = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $http->QuickGetSb($certChainUrl,$sbPem);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$pem = new COM("Chilkat.Pem");
$success = $pem->LoadPem($sbPem->getAsString(),'passwordNotUsed');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $pem->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  The 1st certificate should be the signing certificate.
// cert is a Chilkat.Cert
$cert = $pem->GetCert(0);
if ($pem->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print $pem->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Get the public key from the cert.
$pubKey = new COM("Chilkat.PublicKey");
$cert->GetPublicKey($pubKey);

//  Use the public key extracted from the signing certificate to decrypt the encrypted signature to produce the asserted hash value.
$rsa = new COM("Chilkat.Rsa");
$success = $rsa->UsePublicKey($pubKey);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $cert->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  RSA "decrypt" the signature.
//  (Amazon's documentation is confusing, because we're simply verifiying the signature against the SHA-1 hash
//  of the request body.  This happens in a single call to VerifyStringENC...)
$rsa->EncodingMode = 'base64';
$bVerified = $rsa->VerifyStringENC($jsonBody,'sha1',$signature);
if ($bVerified == 1) {
    print 'The signature is verified against the JSON body of the request. Yay!' . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Sorry, not verified.  Crud!' . "\n";
}


?>