How to do HMAC-SHA1 in swift

Question

I basically am trying to take a String and do what would look like this in php:

    $signature= base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $data, $secretKey, true));

However, do it in Swift... I see a lot of posts about other people trying to do things with CommonCrypto, but that module doesn't seem to install.

So 3 questions really:

Is CommonCrypto the correct way to do this?
If so, how do I add the framework?
If CommonCrypto isn't the best way to do this, what is?

My current code looks like this:

    var authString:String = "PUT\nTEST=BLAH\nTEST2=BLAHBLAHBLAH"
    let hmacResult:String = authString.sha1()

    ...

    extension String {
        func sha1() -> String {
          //Do Something...
        }
    }

Compare http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25761344/how-to-crypt-string-to-sha1-with-swift or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25424831/cant-covert-nsdata-to-nsstring-swift (and there are probably more ...) – To use CommonCrypto you need a bridging header, this is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24002369/how-to-call-objective-c-code-from-swift. — Martin R, Mar 17 '15 at 06:11
What about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24099520/commonhmac-in-swift ? — Martin R, Mar 17 '15 at 06:23

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 09 '20 at 10:30

You should definitely use CommonCrypto because it is already available on every device, well tested and fast. You just need to add a bridging header containing

#import <CommonCrypto/CommonCrypto.h>

As already stated, you can look up here how to add the bridging header.

To calculate the HMAC you just need this extension:

extension String {

    func hmac(key: String) -> String {
        var digest = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: Int(CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH))
        CCHmac(CCHmacAlgorithm(kCCHmacAlgSHA1), key, key.count, self, self.count, &digest)
        let data = Data(bytes: digest, count: Int(CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH))
        return data.map { String(format: "%02hhx", $0) }.joined()
    }

}

Example:

let result = "test".hmac(key: "test")

Result:

0c94515c15e5095b8a87a50ba0df3bf38ed05fe6

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You are my life saver sir – iLearner Feb 19 '19 at 12:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '18 at 08:28

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Checkout this repo: https://github.com/0xa6a/HMAC

It also contains a demo proj for reference.

answered Feb 27 '18 at 08:28

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