I've been trying to generate HMAC SHA256 for Facebook signed request on iOS for weeks now. I am desperate need of help.
Facebook signed requests have two parts which are separated by a period. First part is an HMAC256 of the payload while the 2nd part is Base64 encoded string of the payload. I've only been able to recreate the second part.
vlXgu64BQGFSQrY0ZcJBZASMvYvTHu9GQ0YM9rjPSso.eyJhbGdvcml0aG0iOiJITUFDLVNIQTI1NiIsIjAiOiJwYXlsb2FkIn0
I've been using the following code that everybody uses but it's generating a different hash:
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonHMAC.h> #import "NSData+Base64.h" +(NSString*) hmacForSecret:(NSString*)secret data:(NSString*)data { const char *cKey = [secret cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; const char *cData = [data cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; unsigned char cHMAC[CC_SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH]; CCHmac(kCCHmacAlgSHA256, cKey, strlen(cKey), cData, strlen(cData), cHMAC); NSData *HMAC = [[NSData alloc] initWithBytes:cHMAC length:sizeof(cHMAC)]; return [HMAC base64EncodedString]; }
According to Facebook docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/
Correct HMAC256 output should be when using "secret" as the key:
vlXgu64BQGFSQrY0ZcJBZASMvYvTHu9GQ0YM9rjPSso
The payload to be encoded:
{ "algorithm": "HMAC-SHA256", "0": "payload" }
NOTE: You can Base64 decode the 2nd part of the signed request to get this payload.