暗号署名

The golden rule of web application security is to never trust data from untrusted sources. Sometimes it can be useful to pass data through an untrusted medium. Cryptographically signed values can be passed through an untrusted channel safe in the knowledge that any tampering will be detected.

Django provides both a low-level API for signing values and a high-level API for setting and reading signed cookies, one of the most common uses of signing in web applications.

以下のような便利な署名もあります。

  • Generating "recover my account" URLs for sending to users who have lost their password.
  • Ensuring data stored in hidden form fields has not been tampered with.
  • Generating one-time secret URLs for allowing temporary access to a protected resource, for example a downloadable file that a user has paid for.

SECRET_KEY を守る

startproject によって新しいプロジェクトを作る際、 settings.py が生成され、ランダムな SECRET_KEY を得ます。この値が、署名されたデータを安全に保つ鍵になります。このキーを安全に保存するとこは極めて重要で、さもなければ攻撃を行うひとたちが彼らの署名を生成するのにも使えるからです。

低レベルの API を利用する

Django の署名用メソッドは django.core.signing モジュール内にあります。値に著名を行うには、はじめに、次のようにして Signer インスタンスを作成します。

>>> from django.core.signing import Signer
>>> signer = Signer()
>>> value = signer.sign('My string')
>>> value
'My string:GdMGD6HNQ_qdgxYP8yBZAdAIV1w'

署名が文字列の最後にコロンに続いて付加されます。元の値を取得するには、unsign メソッドを使用します。

>>> original = signer.unsign(value)
>>> original
'My string'

If you pass a non-string value to sign, the value will be forced to string before being signed, and the unsign result will give you that string value:

>>> signed = signer.sign(2.5)
>>> original = signer.unsign(signed)
>>> original
'2.5'

If you wish to protect a list, tuple, or dictionary you can do so using the sign_object() and unsign_object() methods:

>>> signed_obj = signer.sign_object({'message': 'Hello!'})
>>> signed_obj
'eyJtZXNzYWdlIjoiSGVsbG8hIn0:Xdc-mOFDjs22KsQAqfVfi8PQSPdo3ckWJxPWwQOFhR4'
>>> obj = signer.unsign_object(signed_obj)
>>> obj
{'message': 'Hello!'}

See Protecting complex data structures for more details.

何らかの理由により署名の値が書き換わってしまった場合、django.core.signing.BadSignature 例外が起こります。

>>> from django.core import signing
>>> value += 'm'
>>> try:
...    original = signer.unsign(value)
... except signing.BadSignature:
...    print("Tampering detected!")

デフォルトでは、Signer クラスは SECRET_KEY 設定の値を署名生成に利用します。次のように Signer のコンストラクタに任意の値を渡すことで、異なる秘密鍵を使用することもできます。

>>> signer = Signer('my-other-secret')
>>> value = signer.sign('My string')
>>> value
'My string:EkfQJafvGyiofrdGnuthdxImIJw'
class Signer(key=None, sep=':', salt=None, algorithm=None)[ソース]

Returns a signer which uses key to generate signatures and sep to separate values. sep cannot be in the URL safe base64 alphabet. This alphabet contains alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. algorithm must be an algorithm supported by hashlib, it defaults to 'sha256'.

Changed in Django 3.2:

The sign_object() and unsign_object() methods were added.

Using the salt argument

If you do not wish for every occurrence of a particular string to have the same signature hash, you can use the optional salt argument to the Signer class. Using a salt will seed the signing hash function with both the salt and your SECRET_KEY:

>>> signer = Signer()
>>> signer.sign('My string')
'My string:GdMGD6HNQ_qdgxYP8yBZAdAIV1w'
>>> signer.sign_object({'message': 'Hello!'})
'eyJtZXNzYWdlIjoiSGVsbG8hIn0:Xdc-mOFDjs22KsQAqfVfi8PQSPdo3ckWJxPWwQOFhR4'
>>> signer = Signer(salt='extra')
>>> signer.sign('My string')
'My string:Ee7vGi-ING6n02gkcJ-QLHg6vFw'
>>> signer.unsign('My string:Ee7vGi-ING6n02gkcJ-QLHg6vFw')
'My string'
>>> signer.sign_object({'message': 'Hello!'})
'eyJtZXNzYWdlIjoiSGVsbG8hIn0:-UWSLCE-oUAHzhkHviYz3SOZYBjFKllEOyVZNuUtM-I'
>>> signer.unsign_object('eyJtZXNzYWdlIjoiSGVsbG8hIn0:-UWSLCE-oUAHzhkHviYz3SOZYBjFKllEOyVZNuUtM-I')
{'message': 'Hello!'}

Using salt in this way puts the different signatures into different namespaces. A signature that comes from one namespace (a particular salt value) cannot be used to validate the same plaintext string in a different namespace that is using a different salt setting. The result is to prevent an attacker from using a signed string generated in one place in the code as input to another piece of code that is generating (and verifying) signatures using a different salt.

Unlike your SECRET_KEY, your salt argument does not need to stay secret.

Changed in Django 3.2:

The sign_object() and unsign_object() methods were added.

Verifying timestamped values

TimestampSigner is a subclass of Signer that appends a signed timestamp to the value. This allows you to confirm that a signed value was created within a specified period of time:

>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> from django.core.signing import TimestampSigner
>>> signer = TimestampSigner()
>>> value = signer.sign('hello')
>>> value
'hello:1NMg5H:oPVuCqlJWmChm1rA2lyTUtelC-c'
>>> signer.unsign(value)
'hello'
>>> signer.unsign(value, max_age=10)
...
SignatureExpired: Signature age 15.5289158821 > 10 seconds
>>> signer.unsign(value, max_age=20)
'hello'
>>> signer.unsign(value, max_age=timedelta(seconds=20))
'hello'
class TimestampSigner(key=None, sep=':', salt=None, algorithm='sha256')[ソース]
sign(value)[ソース]

Sign value and append current timestamp to it.

unsign(value, max_age=None)[ソース]

Checks if value was signed less than max_age seconds ago, otherwise raises SignatureExpired. The max_age parameter can accept an integer or a datetime.timedelta object.

sign_object(obj, serializer=JSONSerializer, compress=False)
New in Django 3.2.

Encode, optionally compress, append current timestamp, and sign complex data structure (e.g. list, tuple, or dictionary).

unsign_object(signed_obj, serializer=JSONSerializer, max_age=None)
New in Django 3.2.

Checks if signed_obj was signed less than max_age seconds ago, otherwise raises SignatureExpired. The max_age parameter can accept an integer or a datetime.timedelta object.

Protecting complex data structures

If you wish to protect a list, tuple or dictionary you can do so using the Signer.sign_object() and unsign_object() methods, or signing module's dumps() or loads() functions (which are shortcuts for TimestampSigner(salt='django.core.signing').sign_object()/unsign_object()). These use JSON serialization under the hood. JSON ensures that even if your SECRET_KEY is stolen an attacker will not be able to execute arbitrary commands by exploiting the pickle format:

>>> from django.core import signing
>>> signer = signing.TimestampSigner()
>>> value = signer.sign_object({'foo': 'bar'})
>>> value
'eyJmb28iOiJiYXIifQ:1kx6R3:D4qGKiptAqo5QW9iv4eNLc6xl4RwiFfes6oOcYhkYnc'
>>> signer.unsign_object(value)
{'foo': 'bar'}
>>> value = signing.dumps({'foo': 'bar'})
>>> value
'eyJmb28iOiJiYXIifQ:1kx6Rf:LBB39RQmME-SRvilheUe5EmPYRbuDBgQp2tCAi7KGLk'
>>> signing.loads(value)
{'foo': 'bar'}

Because of the nature of JSON (there is no native distinction between lists and tuples) if you pass in a tuple, you will get a list from signing.loads(object):

>>> from django.core import signing
>>> value = signing.dumps(('a','b','c'))
>>> signing.loads(value)
['a', 'b', 'c']
dumps(obj, key=None, salt='django.core.signing', serializer=JSONSerializer, compress=False)[ソース]

Returns URL-safe, signed base64 compressed JSON string. Serialized object is signed using TimestampSigner.

loads(string, key=None, salt='django.core.signing', serializer=JSONSerializer, max_age=None)[ソース]

Reverse of dumps(), raises BadSignature if signature fails. Checks max_age (in seconds) if given.

Changed in Django 3.2:

The sign_object() and unsign_object() methods were added.