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+ strategy:
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+ python-version: ["3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
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+ steps:
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+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
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+ - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
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+ with:
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+ python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
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+ - run: python -m pip install -e ".[aauth,fastapi]" pytest pytest-asyncio ruff mypy
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+ - run: ruff check src tests
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+ - run: mypy src
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+ - run: pytest -q
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+ # Changelog
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+
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+ ## 0.1.0
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+
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+ Initial release, extracted from Regent Protocol's production marketplace
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+ (get4agent.com), where it authenticates self-onboarding AI agents.
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+
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+ - `HttpsigVerifier` — RFC 9421 verification for both agent dialects:
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+ - Web Bot Auth (draft -05): sf-dictionary `Signature-Agent` with `;key=`
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+ member selection AND the legacy sf-string form OpenAI ships in production;
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+ key discovery via `/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`.
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+ - AAuth (identity-based mode, `[aauth]` extra): `aa-agent+jwt` in
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+ `Signature-Key`, issuer JWKS discovery, `cnf.jwk` proof of possession.
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+ - SSRF-guarded directory fetching (https-only, public-IP-only, no redirects,
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+ size-capped) with bounded per-instance caching.
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+ - `EgressSigner` + `regent-httpsig keygen` — sign outbound agent traffic
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+ (Web Bot Auth), generate keys and ready-to-publish well-known files.
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+ - FastAPI integration (`[fastapi]` extra): `SignatureDep` (enrichment) and
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+ `RequiredSignatureDep` (authentication with a self-explaining 401).
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+ - Test suite pinned to the official RFC 9421 B.2.6 vector, both Web Bot Auth
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+ appendix vectors (A.2.2 re-signed — the draft's printed signature does not
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+ verify over its own base; reported), and full sign→verify roundtrips for
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+ both dialects.
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: regent-httpsig
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: Verify and sign AI agent HTTP traffic in Python — RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures: Web Bot Auth (what OpenAI ships) and AAuth.
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/regent-protocol/regent-httpsig
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/regent-protocol/regent-httpsig
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/regent-protocol/regent-httpsig/issues
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+ Author-email: Regent Protocol <info@regentprotocol.org>
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Keywords: aauth,agent-identity,ai-agents,bot-detection,ed25519,http-message-signatures,rfc9421,web-bot-auth
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Security :: Cryptography
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.11
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+ Requires-Dist: cryptography>=42
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+ Requires-Dist: http-message-signatures>=2.0.1
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+ Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.25
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+ Requires-Dist: typing-extensions>=4.10
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+ Provides-Extra: aauth
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+ Requires-Dist: pyjwt>=2.8.0; extra == 'aauth'
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+ Provides-Extra: fastapi
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+ Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.100; extra == 'fastapi'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # regent-httpsig
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+
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+ **Verify and sign AI agent HTTP traffic in Python — the way OpenAI signs and Cloudflare verifies.**
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+ RFC 9421 · Web Bot Auth · AAuth
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+
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+ OpenAI's agents cryptographically sign every HTTP request they make. Cloudflare, AWS WAF and
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+ Google verify those signatures. This library brings both sides of that handshake to Python:
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+ **verify** signed agents hitting your API, and **sign** your own agent's traffic so bot walls
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+ recognize it.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install regent-httpsig
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Verify: know which AI agent is calling — in 5 lines
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from fastapi import FastAPI
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+ from regent_httpsig import HttpsigVerifier
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+ from regent_httpsig.fastapi import attach, SignatureDep, VerifiedSignature
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+
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+ app = FastAPI()
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+ attach(app, HttpsigVerifier())
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+
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+ @app.post("/v1/orders")
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+ async def create_order(sig: VerifiedSignature | None = SignatureDep):
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+ if sig:
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+ print(sig.agent) # "https://chatgpt.com"
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+ print(sig.keyid) # RFC 7638 key thumbprint
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+ ...
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+ ```
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+
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+ No FastAPI? The core has no framework dependencies:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ verifier = HttpsigVerifier()
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+ sig = await verifier.verify(method, url, headers) # VerifiedSignature | None
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+ ```
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+
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+ Verification is **enrichment by default**: no `Signature` header costs nothing, a bad
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+ signature yields `None`, and nothing ever raises on untrusted input. Use
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+ `regent_httpsig.fastapi.RequiredSignatureDep` when a signature must be present — the 401
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+ tells the agent exactly how to sign.
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+
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+ ## Sign: get your agent past bot walls
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from regent_httpsig import EgressSigner
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+
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+ signer = EgressSigner(seed=os.environ["AGENT_KEY_SEED"],
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+ signature_agent="https://myagent.example")
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+ headers = signer.sign("POST", url, {"content-type": "application/json"})
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+ resp = httpx.post(url, json=body, headers=headers)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Generate a key and the ready-to-publish `/.well-known/` files in one command:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ regent-httpsig keygen --agent https://myagent.example --out ./well-known/
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+ ```
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+
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+ Publish the directory at `https://myagent.example/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`
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+ and every Web Bot Auth verifier on the internet can now identify your agent.
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+
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+ ## What exactly is verified
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+
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+ | Check | Status |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | RFC 9421 Appendix B.2.6 Ed25519 vector (byte-exact) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | Web Bot Auth draft -05 A.2.2 — sf-dictionary `Signature-Agent` covered with `;key=` | ✅ in CI¹ |
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+ | Web Bot Auth A.2.3 — legacy sf-string form (**what OpenAI ships in production**) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | Sign → verify roundtrip (fresh keys, full pipeline) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | AAuth identity-mode roundtrip (`aa-agent+jwt` + `cnf.jwk` proof of possession) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | Tampered request / expired signature / wrong directory key rejected | ✅ in CI |
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+
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+ ¹ The signature bytes printed in the draft's own A.2.2 example do **not** verify over the
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+ draft's own signature base (the legacy A.2.3 vector and RFC 9421 B.2.6 both do, so the defect
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+ is in the example, not the canonicalization). Ed25519 is deterministic, so our test pins the
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+ vector re-signed with the same RFC test key over the same byte-exact base — reported upstream.
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+
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+ ## Both dialects, one verifier
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+
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+ - **Web Bot Auth** (`draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture`): key discovery via
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+ `{Signature-Agent}/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`. Both wire forms of
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+ `Signature-Agent` are accepted — the current sf-dictionary and the legacy bare sf-string
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+ OpenAI actually sends.
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+ - **AAuth** (`draft-hardt-oauth-aauth-protocol`, identity-based mode): the agent carries a
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+ JWT `agent_token` in `Signature-Key`; the issuer's JWKS verifies the token, the token's
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+ `cnf.jwk` verifies the request signature. Install with `pip install 'regent-httpsig[aauth]'`.
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+ For a full-protocol AAuth implementation (both roles, all token types) see
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+ [christian-posta/aauth-python-library](https://github.com/christian-posta/aauth-python-library) —
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+ this library is the thin relying-party verifier that handles both dialects.
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+
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+ ## Security model (what a naive implementation gets wrong)
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+
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+ The verifier fetches key directories from **attacker-nameable origins** — whoever signs a
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+ request chooses its `Signature-Agent`. regent-httpsig ships with the guard rails on:
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+
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+ - **SSRF protection by default**: https-only, every resolved IP must be public (catches
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+ `169.254.169.254`, loopback, private ranges, DNS names mapping to internal services),
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+ redirects never followed, responses size-capped.
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+ - **Bounded caching**: per-instance TTL cache with eviction — a keyid-spam attack can't
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+ grow memory; failures are negative-cached so a dead origin can't be used to slow you down.
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+ - **A valid signature proves key possession — not trustworthiness.** `VerifiedSignature.trusted`
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+ reflects only your configured allow-list; deciding *whether to trust* a key is your policy
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+ layer's job.
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+
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+ Known sharp edges of the underlying ecosystem, already handled: the upstream
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+ `http-message-signatures` library cannot resolve RFC 9421 `;key=` dictionary members (we
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+ provide the component resolver), it looks up header names case-sensitively while ASGI
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+ frameworks lowercase them (we wrap), and it forgets to declare `typing_extensions` (we
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+ declare it).
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+
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+ ## Configuration
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from regent_httpsig import HttpsigConfig, HttpsigVerifier
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+ verifier = HttpsigVerifier(HttpsigConfig(
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+ trusted_agents=frozenset({"https://chatgpt.com", "https://operator.openai.com"}),
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+ max_age_hours=25, # reject signatures created earlier than this
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+ cache_ttl=600, # key-directory cache seconds
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+ ))
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+ ```
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+
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+ Pass your app's shared client to reuse its pool: `HttpsigVerifier(http_client=my_async_client)`.
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+
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+ ## Honest limitations
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+
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+ - Web Bot Auth and AAuth are **IETF drafts** (RFC 9421 itself is a final standard). We track
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+ the drafts; breaking draft changes land as minor releases while we're 0.x.
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+ - **Ed25519 only** for now — it's what the agent ecosystem ships.
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+ - Body coverage (`content-digest`) is verified when covered by the signature, but this
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+ library does not require it; decide per-route whether you need it.
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+
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+ ## Related projects
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+
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+ [cloudflare/web-bot-auth](https://github.com/cloudflare/web-bot-auth) (TypeScript/Rust) ·
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+ [christian-posta/aauth-python-library](https://github.com/christian-posta/aauth-python-library)
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+ (full AAuth protocol) · [pyauth/http-message-signatures](https://github.com/pyauth/http-message-signatures)
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+ (the RFC 9421 primitive this builds on)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ Built and battle-tested in production by [Regent Protocol](https://regentprotocol.org) —
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+ runtime control and identity for AI agents. Apache-2.0.
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+ # regent-httpsig
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+
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+ **Verify and sign AI agent HTTP traffic in Python — the way OpenAI signs and Cloudflare verifies.**
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+ RFC 9421 · Web Bot Auth · AAuth
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+
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+ OpenAI's agents cryptographically sign every HTTP request they make. Cloudflare, AWS WAF and
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+ Google verify those signatures. This library brings both sides of that handshake to Python:
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+ **verify** signed agents hitting your API, and **sign** your own agent's traffic so bot walls
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+ recognize it.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install regent-httpsig
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Verify: know which AI agent is calling — in 5 lines
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from fastapi import FastAPI
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+ from regent_httpsig import HttpsigVerifier
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+ from regent_httpsig.fastapi import attach, SignatureDep, VerifiedSignature
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+
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+ app = FastAPI()
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+ attach(app, HttpsigVerifier())
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+
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+ @app.post("/v1/orders")
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+ async def create_order(sig: VerifiedSignature | None = SignatureDep):
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+ if sig:
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+ print(sig.agent) # "https://chatgpt.com"
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+ print(sig.keyid) # RFC 7638 key thumbprint
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+ ...
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+ ```
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+
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+ No FastAPI? The core has no framework dependencies:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ verifier = HttpsigVerifier()
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+ sig = await verifier.verify(method, url, headers) # VerifiedSignature | None
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+ ```
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+
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+ Verification is **enrichment by default**: no `Signature` header costs nothing, a bad
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+ signature yields `None`, and nothing ever raises on untrusted input. Use
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+ `regent_httpsig.fastapi.RequiredSignatureDep` when a signature must be present — the 401
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+ tells the agent exactly how to sign.
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+
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+ ## Sign: get your agent past bot walls
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from regent_httpsig import EgressSigner
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+
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+ signer = EgressSigner(seed=os.environ["AGENT_KEY_SEED"],
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+ signature_agent="https://myagent.example")
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+ headers = signer.sign("POST", url, {"content-type": "application/json"})
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+ resp = httpx.post(url, json=body, headers=headers)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Generate a key and the ready-to-publish `/.well-known/` files in one command:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ regent-httpsig keygen --agent https://myagent.example --out ./well-known/
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+ ```
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+
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+ Publish the directory at `https://myagent.example/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`
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+ and every Web Bot Auth verifier on the internet can now identify your agent.
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+
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+ ## What exactly is verified
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+
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+ | Check | Status |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | RFC 9421 Appendix B.2.6 Ed25519 vector (byte-exact) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | Web Bot Auth draft -05 A.2.2 — sf-dictionary `Signature-Agent` covered with `;key=` | ✅ in CI¹ |
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+ | Web Bot Auth A.2.3 — legacy sf-string form (**what OpenAI ships in production**) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | Sign → verify roundtrip (fresh keys, full pipeline) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | AAuth identity-mode roundtrip (`aa-agent+jwt` + `cnf.jwk` proof of possession) | ✅ in CI |
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+ | Tampered request / expired signature / wrong directory key rejected | ✅ in CI |
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+
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+ ¹ The signature bytes printed in the draft's own A.2.2 example do **not** verify over the
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+ draft's own signature base (the legacy A.2.3 vector and RFC 9421 B.2.6 both do, so the defect
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+ is in the example, not the canonicalization). Ed25519 is deterministic, so our test pins the
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+ vector re-signed with the same RFC test key over the same byte-exact base — reported upstream.
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+
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+ ## Both dialects, one verifier
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+
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+ - **Web Bot Auth** (`draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture`): key discovery via
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+ `{Signature-Agent}/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`. Both wire forms of
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+ `Signature-Agent` are accepted — the current sf-dictionary and the legacy bare sf-string
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+ OpenAI actually sends.
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+ - **AAuth** (`draft-hardt-oauth-aauth-protocol`, identity-based mode): the agent carries a
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+ JWT `agent_token` in `Signature-Key`; the issuer's JWKS verifies the token, the token's
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+ `cnf.jwk` verifies the request signature. Install with `pip install 'regent-httpsig[aauth]'`.
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+ For a full-protocol AAuth implementation (both roles, all token types) see
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+ [christian-posta/aauth-python-library](https://github.com/christian-posta/aauth-python-library) —
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+ this library is the thin relying-party verifier that handles both dialects.
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+
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+ ## Security model (what a naive implementation gets wrong)
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+
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+ The verifier fetches key directories from **attacker-nameable origins** — whoever signs a
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+ request chooses its `Signature-Agent`. regent-httpsig ships with the guard rails on:
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+
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+ - **SSRF protection by default**: https-only, every resolved IP must be public (catches
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+ `169.254.169.254`, loopback, private ranges, DNS names mapping to internal services),
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+ redirects never followed, responses size-capped.
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+ - **Bounded caching**: per-instance TTL cache with eviction — a keyid-spam attack can't
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+ grow memory; failures are negative-cached so a dead origin can't be used to slow you down.
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+ - **A valid signature proves key possession — not trustworthiness.** `VerifiedSignature.trusted`
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+ reflects only your configured allow-list; deciding *whether to trust* a key is your policy
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+ layer's job.
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+
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+ Known sharp edges of the underlying ecosystem, already handled: the upstream
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+ `http-message-signatures` library cannot resolve RFC 9421 `;key=` dictionary members (we
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+ provide the component resolver), it looks up header names case-sensitively while ASGI
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+ frameworks lowercase them (we wrap), and it forgets to declare `typing_extensions` (we
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+ declare it).
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+
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+ ## Configuration
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from regent_httpsig import HttpsigConfig, HttpsigVerifier
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+
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+ verifier = HttpsigVerifier(HttpsigConfig(
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+ trusted_agents=frozenset({"https://chatgpt.com", "https://operator.openai.com"}),
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+ max_age_hours=25, # reject signatures created earlier than this
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+ cache_ttl=600, # key-directory cache seconds
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+ ))
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+ ```
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+
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+ Pass your app's shared client to reuse its pool: `HttpsigVerifier(http_client=my_async_client)`.
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+
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+ ## Honest limitations
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+
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+ - Web Bot Auth and AAuth are **IETF drafts** (RFC 9421 itself is a final standard). We track
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+ the drafts; breaking draft changes land as minor releases while we're 0.x.
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+ - **Ed25519 only** for now — it's what the agent ecosystem ships.
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+ - Body coverage (`content-digest`) is verified when covered by the signature, but this
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+ library does not require it; decide per-route whether you need it.
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+
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+ ## Related projects
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+
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+ [cloudflare/web-bot-auth](https://github.com/cloudflare/web-bot-auth) (TypeScript/Rust) ·
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+ [christian-posta/aauth-python-library](https://github.com/christian-posta/aauth-python-library)
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+ (full AAuth protocol) · [pyauth/http-message-signatures](https://github.com/pyauth/http-message-signatures)
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+ (the RFC 9421 primitive this builds on)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ Built and battle-tested in production by [Regent Protocol](https://regentprotocol.org) —
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+ runtime control and identity for AI agents. Apache-2.0.
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+ # Security Policy
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+
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+ ## Reporting a vulnerability
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+
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+ Email **security@regentprotocol.org**. We aim to acknowledge within 72 hours and follow
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+ coordinated disclosure: please give us up to 90 days before publishing details.
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+
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+ Please include a minimal reproduction. PGP is available on request.
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+
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+ ## Scope notes
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+
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+ - The verifier is designed to be safe against untrusted input by construction: it never
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+ raises on malformed signatures, fetches attacker-nameable URLs only through an SSRF
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+ guard (https-only, public-IP-only, no redirects, size caps), and bounds its caches.
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+ - A **valid signature proves key possession, not trustworthiness** — reports along the
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+ lines of "any agent can sign up" describe the protocol's design, not a vulnerability.
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+ - Vulnerabilities in the underlying `http-message-signatures` library should be reported
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+ upstream; we will ship mitigations where feasible.
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+
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+ ## Supported versions
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+
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+ The latest minor release receives security fixes.
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+ """Minimal FastAPI service that knows which AI agent is calling.
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+
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+ Run: pip install 'regent-httpsig[fastapi]' uvicorn
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+ uvicorn examples.fastapi_verify:app
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+ """
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+
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+ from fastapi import FastAPI
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+
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+ from regent_httpsig import HttpsigConfig, HttpsigVerifier
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+ from regent_httpsig.fastapi import RequiredSignatureDep, SignatureDep, VerifiedSignature, attach
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+
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+ app = FastAPI()
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+ attach(app, HttpsigVerifier(HttpsigConfig(
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+ trusted_agents=frozenset({"https://chatgpt.com", "https://operator.openai.com"}),
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+ )))
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+
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+
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+ @app.get("/whoami")
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+ async def whoami(sig: VerifiedSignature | None = SignatureDep) -> dict:
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+ """Enrichment: works for everyone, tells signed agents apart."""
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+ if sig is None:
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+ return {"agent": None, "note": "unsigned request"}
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+ return {"agent": sig.agent, "keyid": sig.keyid, "trusted": sig.trusted}
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+
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+
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+ @app.post("/agents-only")
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+ async def agents_only(sig: VerifiedSignature = RequiredSignatureDep) -> dict:
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+ """Authentication: unsigned callers get a 401 explaining how to sign."""
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+ return {"welcome": sig.agent}