Calculating a SHA hash with a string + secret key in python

Question

Amazon Product API now requires a signature with every request which I\'m trying to generate ushing Python.

The step I get hung up on is this one:

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Answer 1

If you are trying to sign up a user to AWS cognito using Python3, you can use the following code.

#For the SecretHash 
import hmac
import hashlib
import base64   

//Please note that the b in the secretKey and encode('utf-8') are really really important. 
secretKey = b"secret key that you get from Coginito -> User Pool -> General Settings -> App Clients-->Click on Show more details -> App client secret  "
 clientId = "Coginito -> User Pool -> General Settings -> App Clients-->App client id"
 digest = hmac.new(secretKey,
              msg=(user_name + clientId).encode('utf-8'),
              digestmod=hashlib.sha256
             ).digest()
 secrethash = base64.b64encode(digest).decode()

The username user_name in the above is same as the user that you want to register in the cognito

client = boto3.client('cognito-idp', region_name='eu-west-1' )

response = client.sign_up(
                    ClientId='Coginito -> User Pool -> General Settings -> App Clients-->App client id',
                    Username='Username of the person you are planning to register',
                    Password='Password of the person you are planning to register',
                    SecretHash=secrethash,
                    UserAttributes=[
                        {
                            'Name': 'given_name',
                            'Value': given_name
                        },
                        {
                            'Name': 'family_name',
                            'Value': family_name
                        },
                        {
                            'Name': 'email',
                            'Value': user_email
                        }
                    ],
                    ValidationData=[
                        {
                            'Name': 'email',
                            'Value': user_email
                        },
                    ]