WeasySign

Digital Signatures for WeasyPrint

WeasySign is a small library intended to be a high level (as in simple to use) library for digitally signing pdf's generated with the WeasyPrint PDF library.

WeasySign currently has adapters for using Self-Signed Certificates and using GlobalSign's DSS API.

This initial version is _very much a work made in a stream of consciousness as a reaction to Covid-19 forcing staff to work from home, making printing and hand-signing documents impractical. Therefore you should not expect the code to be neither elegant nor efficient quite yet. For example the helpers.py is a mess of various functions that should probably be made into a better structure.

WeasySign was written by the Division of Information Technology at the University of Iceland (http://uts.hi.is).

• Free software: BSD licensed
• Python 3.5+
• WeasyPrint: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint
• Globalsign DSS API Documentation: https://www.globalsign.com/en/resources/apis/api-documentation/digital-signing-service-api-documentation.html
• Source code and issue tracker: https://github.com/hejsan/WeasySign
• A special thanks to the super elegant asn1crypto library: https://github.com/wbond/asn1crypto

Documentation

WeasySign makes use of WeasyPrint's finisher hook. WeasyPrint allows users to pass a finishing function to Document.write_pdf() for post-processing of the PDF file.

from weasyprint import HTML
from weasysign import factory

document = HTML.render()
# To sign the pdf with a self-signed certificate:
signer = factory('selfsigned', cert='/bla/cert.crt', private_key='/bla/cert.key')
document.write_pdf(target='/tmp/my-self-signed-doc.pdf', finisher=signer)

# To sign the pdf using GlobalSigns DSS API:
subject_dn = {'subject_dn': {
  "common_name": "Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc.",
  "organizational_unit": [
    "Angela Martin",
    "Accounting"
  ]
}}
signer = factory('globalsign', cfg_file='/bla/globalsign_config.ini', subject_dn=subject_dn)
document.write_pdf(target='/tmp/my-digitally-signed-doc.pdf', finisher=signer)

The configuration file for the GlobalSign signer is a simple .ini file:

[SSL]
certfile = /some/dir/signatures_globalsign.crt
keyfile = /some/dir/signatures_globalsign.key
keypass = Pam is the office mattress
[API]
url = https://emea.api.dss.globalsign.com:8443
# The endpoint will be appended to the url:
endpoint = /v2
api_key = **********
api_secret = ************************

The private key password can alternatively be passed to the factory constructor:

signer = factory(
  'globalsign',
  cfg_file='/bla/globalsign_config.ini',
  keypass="Pam is the office mattress",
  subject_dn=subject_dn
)