Forum ‹ QuickConnect ‹ Code example for AS3 auth-hash

[cjcenizal]

I noticed this page (http://playerio.com/documentation/connections) missing an example on how to create an auth-hash in AS3, so I wrote one up:

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private function makeHash( mUserId:String, mSecret:String ):String {
   var now:Date = new Date();
   var unixTime:String = Math.round( now.time * .001 ).toString();
   var message:String = unixTime + ":" + mUserId;
   return unixTime + ":" + HMAC.hash( mSecret, message, SHA1 );
}


HMAC and SHA1 are classes provided as part of as3corelib (https://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib). You'll just need to import them like so:

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import com.adobe.crypto.SHA1;
import com.adobe.crypto.HMAC;


[FulaFisken]

Thanks!

[Oliver]

Thanks for the code example.

I'm hesitant to add it to the list of example code snippets, since I'm worried that it will lead to people embedding their secret key into their flash file which is not very secure.

Thoughts?

- Oliver

[Henrik]

I'd be hesitant to add it to the documentation since it uses a 3rd party library. No idea how widespread that one is, though.