acs_mail_lite::valid_signature (private)

 acs_mail_lite::valid_signature -signature signature \
    -message_id message_id

Defined in packages/acs-mail-lite/tcl/acs-mail-lite-procs.tcl

Validates if provided signature syntactically matches message_id as generated by OpenACS and equals to the hash of the provided signature. GN: not sure, why both is checked.

Switches:

-signature

(required)

signature to be checked

-message_id

(required)

Returns:

boolean 0 or 1

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

Source code:

        if {![regexp "(<\[\-0-9\]+\\.\[0-9\]+\\.oacs@[address_domain]>)" $message_id match id]
            || $signature ne [ns_sha1 $id]
        } {
            # either couldn't find message-id or signature doesn't match
            return 0
        }
        return 1

Generic XQL file:

packages/acs-mail-lite/tcl/acs-mail-lite-procs.xql

PostgreSQL XQL file:

packages/acs-mail-lite/tcl/acs-mail-lite-procs-postgresql.xql

Oracle XQL file:

packages/acs-mail-lite/tcl/acs-mail-lite-procs-oracle.xql