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Identity validation in OneHash Chat

Identity Validation



To make sure the conversations between the customers and the support agents are private and to disallow impersonation, you can setup identity validation OneHash Chat.

Identity validation can be enabled by generating an HMAC. The key used to generate HMAC for each webwidget is different and can be copied from Inboxes -> Settings -> Configuration -> Identity Validation -> Copy the token shown there

You can generate HMAC in different languages as shown below.

Generate HMAC



PHP



<?php

$key = '<webwidget-hmac-token>';
$message = '<identifier>';

$identifier_hash = hash_hmac('sha256', $message, $key);
?>


Javascript (Node.js)



const crypto = require('crypto');

const key = '<webwidget-hmac-token>';
const message = '<identifier>';

const hash = crypto.createHmac('sha256', key).update(message).digest('hex');


Ruby



require 'openssl'
require 'base64'

key = '<webwidget-hmac-token>'
message = '<identifier>'

OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest('sha256', key, message)


Elixir



key = '<webwidget-hmac-token>'
message = '<identifier>'

signature = :crypto.hmac(:sha256, key, message)

Base.encode16(signature, case: :lower)


Golang



package main

import (
	"crypto/hmac"
	"crypto/sha256"
	"encoding/base64"
	"encoding/hex"
)

func main() {
  secret := []byte("<webwidget-hmac-token>")
  message := []byte("<identifier>")

  hash := hmac.New(sha256.New, secret)
  hash.Write(message)
  hex.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil))
}


Python



import hashlib
import hmac
import base64

secret = bytes('<webwidget-hmac-token>', 'utf-8')
message = bytes('<identifier>', 'utf-8')

hash = hmac.new(secret, message, hashlib.sha256)
hash.hexdigest()

Updated on: 27/09/2023

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