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PHP vs Python: Generating a HMAC

I’ve been writing a bit of code to integrate with a ClassMarker webhook, and you’re required to check that an incoming request actually came from ClassMarker by checking the value of a base64 hash using HMAC SHA256.

The example in the documentation is written in PHP which I haven’t done for about 10 years so I had to figure out how to do the same thing in Python.

This is the PHP version:

$ php -a
php > echo base64_encode(hash_hmac("sha256", "my data", "my_secret", true));
vyniKpNSlxu4AfTgSJImt+j+pRx7v6m+YBobfKsoGhE=

The Python equivalent is a bit more code but it’s not too bad.

Import all the libraries

import hmac
import hashlib
import base64

Generate that hash

data = "my data".encode("utf-8")
digest = hmac.new(b"my_secret", data, digestmod=hashlib.sha256).digest()

print(base64.b64encode(digest).decode())
'vyniKpNSlxu4AfTgSJImt+j+pRx7v6m+YBobfKsoGhE='

We’re getting the same value as the PHP version so it’s good times all round.

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