__all__ = [ 'split', 'mkNonce', 'checkTimestamp', ] from openid import cryptutil from time import strptime, strftime, gmtime, time from calendar import timegm import string NONCE_CHARS = string.ascii_letters + string.digits # Keep nonces for five hours (allow five hours for the combination of # request time and clock skew). This is probably way more than is # necessary, but there is not much overhead in storing nonces. SKEW = 60 * 60 * 5 time_fmt = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' time_str_len = len('0000-00-00T00:00:00Z') def split(nonce_string): """Extract a timestamp from the given nonce string @param nonce_string: the nonce from which to extract the timestamp @type nonce_string: str @returns: A pair of a Unix timestamp and the salt characters @returntype: (int, str) @raises ValueError: if the nonce does not start with a correctly formatted time string """ timestamp_str = nonce_string[:time_str_len] try: timestamp = timegm(strptime(timestamp_str, time_fmt)) except AssertionError: # Python 2.2 timestamp = -1 if timestamp < 0: raise ValueError('time out of range') return timestamp, nonce_string[time_str_len:] def checkTimestamp(nonce_string, allowed_skew=SKEW, now=None): """Is the timestamp that is part of the specified nonce string within the allowed clock-skew of the current time? @param nonce_string: The nonce that is being checked @type nonce_string: str @param allowed_skew: How many seconds should be allowed for completing the request, allowing for clock skew. @type allowed_skew: int @param now: The current time, as a Unix timestamp @type now: int @returntype: bool @returns: Whether the timestamp is correctly formatted and within the allowed skew of the current time. """ try: stamp, _ = split(nonce_string) except ValueError: return False else: if now is None: now = time() # Time after which we should not use the nonce past = now - allowed_skew # Time that is too far in the future for us to allow future = now + allowed_skew # the stamp is not too far in the future and is not too far in # the past return past <= stamp <= future def mkNonce(when=None): """Generate a nonce with the current timestamp @param when: Unix timestamp representing the issue time of the nonce. Defaults to the current time. @type when: int @returntype: str @returns: A string that should be usable as a one-way nonce @see: time """ salt = cryptutil.randomString(6, NONCE_CHARS) if when is None: t = gmtime() else: t = gmtime(when) time_str = strftime(time_fmt, t) return time_str + salt