How to authenticate an LLL launch request

I solved this a while ago and although it might come in handy for anyone looking for a solution.

Let's start by getting the oauth lib: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Owin.Security.OAuth/

// parse out the signature from the http req.
ProviderRequest providerRequest = new ProviderRequest();
providerRequest.ParseRequest(httpRequest, false);
String httpSig = providerRequest.Signature;

// now generate a new signature from our secret
String generatedSig = GenerateOAuthSignature(secret, req);

if( generatedSig == httpSig ){
   // valid oauth request
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Generating the OAuthSignature is part of the owin lib, but that's where the code does:

    internal static string GenerateSignatureBase(string httpMethod, Uri url, NameValueCollection parameters)
    {
        var normalizedUrl = string.Format("{0}://{1}", url.Scheme, url.Host);
        if (!((url.Scheme == "http" && url.Port == 80) || (url.Scheme == "https" && url.Port == 443)))
        {
            normalizedUrl += ":" + url.Port;
        }
        normalizedUrl += url.AbsolutePath;

        StringBuilder signatureBase = new StringBuilder();
        signatureBase.Append(httpMethod.ToRfc3986EncodedString().ToUpper()).Append('&');
        signatureBase.Append(normalizedUrl.ToRfc3986EncodedString()).Append('&');

        var excludedNames = new List<string> { OAuthConstants.SignatureParameter };
        signatureBase.Append(parameters.ToNormalizedString(excludedNames).ToRfc3986EncodedString());

        return signatureBase.ToString();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Generates a signature using the specified signatureType 
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used</param>
    /// <param name="url">The full url to be signed</param>
    /// <param name="parameters">The collection of parameters to sign</param>
    /// <param name="consumerSecret">The OAuth consumer secret used to generate the signature</param>
    /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns>
    public static string GenerateSignature(string httpMethod, Uri url, NameValueCollection parameters, string consumerSecret)
    {
        var signatureBase = GenerateSignatureBase(httpMethod, url, parameters);

        // Note that in LTI, the TokenSecret (second part of the key) is blank
        HMACSHA1 hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1();
        hmacsha1.Key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string.Format("{0}&", consumerSecret.ToRfc3986EncodedString()));

        var dataBuffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(signatureBase);
        var hashBytes = hmacsha1.ComputeHash(dataBuffer);

        return Convert.ToBase64String(hashBytes);
    }