Hashing Secret + Payload for SSO

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After parsing the payload it appears to be in base64 by default, but the 256SHA has of the base64 encoded payload isn’t correct. I’m using the example secret and URL from the OG post.

The following code gives me the following output:

 payloadURL = bm9uY2U9Y2I2ODI1MWVlZmI1MjExZTU4YzAwZmYxMzk1ZjBjMGI=

sig = 2828aa29899722b35a2f191d34ef9b3ce695e0e6eeec47deb46d588d70c7cb56
payloadRaw = nonce=cb68251eefb5211e58c00ff1395f0c0b
payload256 = KCiqKYmXIrNaLxkdNO+bPOaV4Obu7EfetG1YjXDHy1Y=

My code:

testURL := "http://www.example.com/discourse/sso?sso=bm9uY2U9Y2I2ODI1MWVlZmI1MjExZTU4YzAwZmYxMzk1ZjBjMGI%3D%0A&sig=2828aa29899722b35a2f191d34ef9b3ce695e0e6eeec47deb46d588d70c7cb56"	
	ssoSecret := "d836444a9e4084d5b224a60c208dce14"

	// grab the payload and sig from the URL query
	u, err := url.Parse(testURL)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	q := u.Query()
	payloadURL := strings.Trim(fmt.Sprint(q["sso"]), "=[]")
	sig := strings.Trim(fmt.Sprint(q["sig"]), "[]")
	
	fmt.Printf("payloadURL = %s\n", payloadURL)
	fmt.Printf("sig = %s\n", sig)

	// get the raw payload from the base64 version
	payloadRaw, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(payloadURL)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("payloadRaw = %s\n", payloadRaw)
	
	key := []byte(ssoSecret)
	message := []byte(payloadURL)
	hash := hmac.New(sha256.New, key)
	hash.Write(message)
	payload256 := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil))
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	
	fmt.Printf("payload256 = %s\n", payload256)

	// sig is hex encoded, so hex encode the hashed payload so we can compare.
	//hashAsString := hex.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil))

	// compare the hex-encoded hash of payload to the hex-encoded sig
	if strings.Compare(payload256, sig) != 0 {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

Update: I fixed this after encoding my resulting HMAC-SHA256 hash to hex (the signature is also hex encoded. Also see this post that says that the examples in the SSO guide are incorrect. So I changed this code:

key := []byte(ssoSecret)
message := []byte(payloadURL)
hash := hmac.New(sha256.New, key)
hash.Write(message)
payload256 := hex.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil))
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}