RSAAuthority

Signing and authorization of HTTP requests with RSA keys

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rsa_authority'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rsa_authority

Usage

Generate your RSA key pairs. You can use utility provided in the gem

rake rsa_authority:key_gen["example"]

This will generate both public and private keys expamle.pem example.pub

Then send your public key to the server you want to be allowed to send the requests.

Client side

Sign the request before executing it with client side private key

signer = RSAAuthority::Signer.new(request, private_key)
signer.sign

This will add a header to the HTTP request. This is signed version of the request.

Server side

Find private key for the cient. Client should have a client id, and server should have that client id associated with public key for the client

auth = RSAAuthority::Authorizer.new(request, public_key)
auth.authentic?

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/metin/rsa_authority/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request