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gitea/vendor/github.com/gorilla/securecookie/README.md
Willem van Dreumel 01d957677f Oauth2 consumer (#679)
* initial stuff for oauth2 login, fails on:
* login button on the signIn page to start the OAuth2 flow and a callback for each provider
Only GitHub is implemented for now
* show login button only when the OAuth2 consumer is configured (and activated)
* create macaron group for oauth2 urls
* prevent net/http in modules (other then oauth2)
* use a new data sessions oauth2 folder for storing the oauth2 session data
* add missing 2FA when this is enabled on the user
* add password option for OAuth2 user , for use with git over http and login to the GUI
* add tip for registering a GitHub OAuth application
* at startup of Gitea register all configured providers and also on adding/deleting of new providers
* custom handling of errors in oauth2 request init + show better tip
* add ExternalLoginUser model and migration script to add it to database
* link a external account to an existing account (still need to handle wrong login and signup) and remove if user is removed
* remove the linked external account from the user his settings
* if user is unknown we allow him to register a new account or link it to some existing account
* sign up with button on signin page (als change OAuth2Provider structure so we can store basic stuff about providers)

* from gorilla/sessions docs:
"Important Note: If you aren't using gorilla/mux, you need to wrap your handlers with context.ClearHandler as or else you will leak memory!"
(we're using gorilla/sessions for storing oauth2 sessions)

* use updated goth lib that now supports getting the OAuth2 user if the AccessToken is still valid instead of re-authenticating (prevent flooding the OAuth2 provider)
2017-02-22 08:14:37 +01:00

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securecookie

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securecookie encodes and decodes authenticated and optionally encrypted cookie values.

Secure cookies can't be forged, because their values are validated using HMAC. When encrypted, the content is also inaccessible to malicious eyes. It is still recommended that sensitive data not be stored in cookies, and that HTTPS be used to prevent cookie replay attacks.

Examples

To use it, first create a new SecureCookie instance:

// Hash keys should be at least 32 bytes long
var hashKey = []byte("very-secret")
// Block keys should be 16 bytes (AES-128) or 32 bytes (AES-256) long.
// Shorter keys may weaken the encryption used.
var blockKey = []byte("a-lot-secret")
var s = securecookie.New(hashKey, blockKey)

The hashKey is required, used to authenticate the cookie value using HMAC. It is recommended to use a key with 32 or 64 bytes.

The blockKey is optional, used to encrypt the cookie value -- set it to nil to not use encryption. If set, the length must correspond to the block size of the encryption algorithm. For AES, used by default, valid lengths are 16, 24, or 32 bytes to select AES-128, AES-192, or AES-256.

Strong keys can be created using the convenience function GenerateRandomKey().

Once a SecureCookie instance is set, use it to encode a cookie value:

func SetCookieHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	value := map[string]string{
		"foo": "bar",
	}
	if encoded, err := s.Encode("cookie-name", value); err == nil {
		cookie := &http.Cookie{
			Name:  "cookie-name",
			Value: encoded,
			Path:  "/",
			Secure: true,
			HttpOnly: true,
		}
		http.SetCookie(w, cookie)
	}
}

Later, use the same SecureCookie instance to decode and validate a cookie value:

func ReadCookieHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	if cookie, err := r.Cookie("cookie-name"); err == nil {
		value := make(map[string]string)
		if err = s2.Decode("cookie-name", cookie.Value, &value); err == nil {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "The value of foo is %q", value["foo"])
		}
	}
}

We stored a map[string]string, but secure cookies can hold any value that can be encoded using encoding/gob. To store custom types, they must be registered first using gob.Register(). For basic types this is not needed; it works out of the box. An optional JSON encoder that uses encoding/json is available for types compatible with JSON.

License

BSD licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.