Libs

package revel

// Sign a given string with the app-configured secret key.
// If no secret key is set, returns the empty string.
// Return the signature in base64 (URLEncoding).
func Sign(message string) string {
    if len(secretKey) == 0 {
        return ""
    }
    mac := hmac.New(sha1.New, secretKey)
    io.WriteString(mac, message)
    return hex.EncodeToString(mac.Sum(nil))
}

// Verify returns true if the given signature is correct for the given message.
// e.g. it matches what we generate with Sign()
func Verify(message, sig string) bool {
    return hmac.Equal([]byte(sig), []byte(Sign(message)))
}