On 15 March 2011 11:26, Dimuthu Leelarathne <[email protected]> wrote:

> 3) I don't understand the SQS secret key part.
>> a) I'd expect to see both an access key and a secret key
>>
>
> I need to clarify something regarding this "access key" and "secret key".
> Right now access key is username and secret key is D for SQS. I think we can
> keep it the same and implement your algorithm with minimal changes to UM. So
> here is the implementation,
>
> 1) Generate X on server on first server start up and store it securely. We
> can encrypt it using server's public key
> 2) When user request for a SQS key, generate D and store it in UM using
> userStore.addUser(String username, String password) as follows.
> userStore.addUser(SecureHash(U+X), D+X) - we store password hashed.
> 3) Show D to user. User's access key is username and user's secret key is D
> 4) When user sends SQS requests using D, check the validity as follows.
> userStore.authenticate(SecureHash(U+X), D+X)
> 5) If the user is validated (i.e. authenticate is passed) the signature is
> generated using D+X
>
> If it is done this way we need not show two keys to user. Of cause we can
> show to keys to user as well, i.e. in place of username we can show
> SecureHash(U+X). But is it a requirement?
>

Dimuthu

The access key cannot be the username because it is a 20 digit key. See
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/2009-02-01/SQSGettingStartedGuide/
 So we need to do something to make it fit that.

I'm still not clear if the secret key is stored separately or just something
we calculate from their existing password?

Paul

>
> Thanks,
> Dimuthu
>
>
>
>
>> b) I don't expect the user to change these: I thought they were going to
>> be calculated.
>>
>> More feedback when I finally get it to build :-)
>>
>> Paul
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