Swift 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. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    //  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:
    var signature: String? = "dSUmPwxc9...aKAf8mpEXg=="
    var certChainUrl: String? = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/echo.api/echo-api-cert-6-ats.pem"
    var jsonBody: String? = "{\"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 
    let http = CkoHttp()!
    let sbPem = CkoStringBuilder()!
    success = http.quickGetSb(url: certChainUrl, sbContent: sbPem)
    if success == false {
        print("\(http.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    let pem = CkoPem()!
    success = pem.load(pemContent: sbPem.getAsString(), password: "passwordNotUsed")
    if success == false {
        print("\(pem.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  The 1st certificate should be the signing certificate.
    var cert: CkoCert? = pem.getCert(index: 0)
    if pem.lastMethodSuccess == false {
        print("\(pem.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  Get the public key from the cert.
    let pubKey = CkoPublicKey()!
    cert!.getPublicKey(pubKey: pubKey)

    cert = nil

    //  Use the public key extracted from the signing certificate to decrypt the encrypted signature to produce the asserted hash value.
    let rsa = CkoRsa()!
    success = rsa.usePublicKey(pubKey: pubKey)
    if success == false {
        print("\(cert!.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  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"
    var bVerified: Bool = rsa.verifyStringENC(str: jsonBody, hashAlg: "sha1", sig: signature)
    if bVerified == true {
        print("The signature is verified against the JSON body of the request. Yay!")
    }
    else {
        print("Sorry, not verified.  Crud!")
    }


}