enigma

github.com/teejayvanslyke/enigma

DESCRIPTION:

Key/secret authentication for your web services

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

I just started implementing this today, so it’s really not ready for use. I would love your opinions about the current API and possible improvements.

SYNOPSIS:

Let’s say you have a web service endpoint coded in Sinatra that says “Hello, world”:

# app.rb
get '/' do
  "Hello, world!"
end

Enigma will allow you to authenticate the service using a key/secret scheme:

>> Enigma.generate_key
=> "03637dee19a1c96c1547f8834ca5e96c"
>> Enigma.generate_secret
=> "1f430a0481601697898a566ae54fde5a"

# app.rb

Enigma.find_secret do |key|
  # Usually, you'd have these stored in your database. 
  # For this example, we'll just return the secret if we have a matching
  # key.
  if key == "03637dee19a1c96c1547f8834ca5e96c"
    return "1f430a0481601697898a566ae54fde5a"
  end
end

get '/' do
  if (params = Enigma.authenticate(params))
    "Hello, world."
  else
    "Not authorized."
  end
end

It provides a wrapper for the rest-client gem which properly encodes URI parameters on the query string for consumption by Enigma:

# client.rb

client = Enigma::Client.new(
  "03637dee19a1c96c1547f8834ca5e96c",
  "1f430a0481601697898a566ae54fde5a"
)

client.get("http://localhost:4567").body
=> "Hello, world."

The Enigma.authenticate method returns the unencoded parameters if the authentication is successful; otherwise it returns nil.

REQUIREMENTS:

ezcrypto

INSTALL:

sudo gem install enigma

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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