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# Calculating the Payload-Signature

## Calculating the Signature <a href="#calculating-the-signature" id="calculating-the-signature"></a>

All calls to our Cashouts APIs must contain a `Payload-Signature` field on the header used to ensure request integrity and to authenticate yourself since you will use your own API Signature (secret key) to generate and encrypt a hash.

It has to be created using **HMAC-SHA-256 (RFC 2104)** encoding and the payload is made of the entire JSON Payload sent in the body of the requests and notifications.

{% hint style="success" %}
Use your API Signature to create the HASH
{% endhint %}

The `Payload-Signature` field on the header of the requests will contain the hash generated from hashing the entire JSON Payload:

> Payload-Signature: HMAC256(jsonPayload)

Example:

> Payload-Signature: 223a9dd4784726f1536c926da7dc69155a57612c5c3c1e1b429c367a5eee67cf

​

​

### Notes <a href="#notes" id="notes"></a>

The `Payload-Signature` value is case sensitive and must be sent in lower case.

In case the `jsonPayload` value is empty, use an empty string instead.

The `jsonPayload` should be converted to UTF-8 before hashing it to prevent `Invalid Signature` error when sending characters with different encodings.

​

## Examples <a href="#examples" id="examples"></a>

Check the examples below on how to calculate the `Payload-Signature`.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import org.apache.commons.net.util.Base64;

String json_payload = "{ \"login\": \"cashout_API_Key\", \"pass\": \"cashout_API_Passphrase\",   \"external_id\": \"123456789\",  \"document_id\": \"1234567899\",  \"document_type\": \"\",   \"cashout_type\": \"BANK\", \"beneficiary_name\": \"Test User\", \"beneficiary_lastname\": \"Test User\",  \"country\": \"MX\",  \"amount\": 2000,  \"currency\": \"MXN\",  \"email\": \"test@test.com\", \"notification_url\": \"http:\\/\\/d24.com\\/notification\",  \"bank_code\": \"072\",\"bank_branch\": \"\",  \"bank_account\": \"1234567890\", \"account_type\": \"C\", \"address\": \"\"}";
String secretKey = "cashout_secret_key";
Mac hasher = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
hasher.init(new SecretKeySpec(secretKey.getBytes(), "HmacSHA256"));
String payload_signature = Base64.encodeBase64String(hasher.doFinal(json_payload.getBytes())).toLowerCase();


```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```csharp
<?php
$json_payload = '{
"login": "cashout_API_Key",
"pass": "cashout_API_Passphrase",
"external_id": "123456789",
"document_id": "1234567899",
"document_type": "", 
"cashout_type": "BANK",
"beneficiary_name": "Test User",
"beneficiary_lastname": "Test User",
"country": "MX",
"amount": 2000,
"currency": "MXN",
"email": "test@test.com",
"notification_url": "http://www.d24.com/notification",
"bank_code": "072",
"bank_branch": "",
"bank_account": "1234567890",
"account_type": "C",
"address": ""
}';
$secretKey = "cashout_secret_key";
$payload_signature = strtolower(hash_hmac('sha256', pack('A*', $json_payload), pack('A*', $secretKey)));
?>


```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="C#" %}

```php
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

string jsonPayload = "{ \"login\": \"cashout_API_Key\", \"pass\": \"cashout_API_Passphrase\",   \"external_id\": \"123456789\",  \"document_id\": \"1234567899\",  \"document_type\": \"\",   \"cashout_type\": \"BANK\", \"beneficiary_name\": \"Test User\", \"beneficiary_lastname\": \"Test User\",  \"country\": \"MX\",  \"amount\": 2000,  \"currency\": \"MXN\",  \"email\": \"test@test.com\", \"notification_url\": \"http:\\/\\/www.d24.com\\/notification\",  \"bank_code\": \"072\",\"bank_branch\": \"\",  \"bank_account\": \"1234567890\", \"account_type\": \"C\", \"address\": \"\"}";
string secretKey = "cashout_secret_key";        
byte[] keyByte = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(secretKey);
byte[] jsonPayloadBytes = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(jsonPayload);
byte[] hashmessage = new HMACSHA256(keyByte).ComputeHash(jsonPayloadBytes);
string payloadSignature = BitConverter.ToString(hashmessage).Replace("-", "").ToLower();


```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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