package main import ( "crypto/hmac" "crypto/sha1" "encoding/base64" "fmt" "net/http" "strconv" "strings" "time" ) func validateCookie(cookie *http.Cookie, seed string) (string, bool) { // value, timestamp, sig parts := strings.Split(cookie.Value, "|") if len(parts) != 3 { return "", false } sig := cookieSignature(seed, cookie.Name, parts[0], parts[1]) if checkHmac(parts[2], sig) { ts, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[1]) if err == nil && int64(ts) > time.Now().Add(time.Duration(24)*7*time.Hour*-1).Unix() { // it's a valid cookie. now get the contents rawValue, err := base64.URLEncoding.DecodeString(parts[0]) if err == nil { return string(rawValue), true } } } return "", false } func signedCookieValue(seed string, key string, value string) string { encodedValue := base64.URLEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(value)) timeStr := fmt.Sprintf("%d", time.Now().Unix()) sig := cookieSignature(seed, key, encodedValue, timeStr) cookieVal := fmt.Sprintf("%s|%s|%s", encodedValue, timeStr, sig) return cookieVal } func cookieSignature(args ...string) string { h := hmac.New(sha1.New, []byte(args[0])) for _, arg := range args[1:] { h.Write([]byte(arg)) } var b []byte b = h.Sum(b) return base64.URLEncoding.EncodeToString(b) } func checkHmac(input, expected string) bool { inputMAC, err1 := base64.URLEncoding.DecodeString(input) if err1 == nil { expectedMAC, err2 := base64.URLEncoding.DecodeString(expected) if err2 == nil { return hmac.Equal(inputMAC, expectedMAC) } } return false }