Unicode C++

Verify Signature of Alexa Custom Skill Request

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This example verifies the signature of an Alexa Custom Skill Request. Unicode C++

#include <CkHttpW.h>
#include <CkStringBuilderW.h>
#include <CkPemW.h>
#include <CkCertW.h>
#include <CkPublicKeyW.h>
#include <CkRsaW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = 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:
    const wchar_t *signature = L"dSUmPwxc9...aKAf8mpEXg==";
    const wchar_t *certChainUrl = L"https://s3.amazonaws.com/echo.api/echo-api-cert-6-ats.pem";
    const wchar_t *jsonBody = L"{\"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 
    CkHttpW http;
    CkStringBuilderW sbPem;
    success = http.QuickGetSb(certChainUrl,sbPem);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",http.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    CkPemW pem;
    success = pem.LoadPem(sbPem.getAsString(),L"passwordNotUsed");
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",pem.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // The 1st certificate should be the signing certificate.
    CkCertW *cert = pem.GetCert(0);
    if (pem.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",pem.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // Get the public key from the cert.
    CkPublicKeyW pubKey;
    cert->GetPublicKey(pubKey);

    delete cert;

    // Use the public key extracted from the signing certificate to decrypt the encrypted signature to produce the asserted hash value.
    CkRsaW rsa;
    success = rsa.UsePublicKey(pubKey);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",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.put_EncodingMode(L"base64");
    bool bVerified = rsa.VerifyStringENC(jsonBody,L"sha1",signature);
    if (bVerified == true) {
        wprintf(L"The signature is verified against the JSON body of the request. Yay!\n");
    }
    else {
        wprintf(L"Sorry, not verified.  Crud!\n");
    }
    }