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How do I verify the Weavy webhook signature?

I have registered a webhook and provided a secret as documented on https://www.weavy.com/docs/backend/webhooks.
When the payload is delivered to my url I want to verify the signature, but I can't seem to get the calculation correct. What am I doing wrong?
Here is the code I'm using:
public static bool Verify(string signature, string body, string secret)
{
using (var hmac = new HMACSHA256(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(secret)))
{
var hashBytes = hmac.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(body));
var hash = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(hashBytes);
return signature.Equals(hash);
}
}

The documentation says the signature is a HMAC hex digest so instead of converting hashBytes to an UTF8 string you should convert it to a hexadecimal string.
public static bool Verify(string signature, string body, string secret)
{
using (var hmac = new HMACSHA256(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Secret)))
{
var hashBytes = hmac.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(body));
var hash = Convert.ToHexString(hashBytes).ToLowerInvariant();
return signature.Equals(hash);
}
}

Decrypt and verify hash for SHA256 - c#

I am trying to decrypt and validate the hash but at times of decrypting, it throws me the error 'Key does not exist' and at the time of validating the hash return False
https://payvyne.readme.io/docs/webhooks
Signature:
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
Public key:
pA6ULfXWrIMq-qvxn_0CykoStq0ZMYm63lHsuXTsE4q4tgekLJDW2Lnf35ilbFU_vybBdyeJAphpsYc4P0eJBt_z2T62HAV3gnwp_GU6hWIo8faK31TSXIrLmGjZlAVynAxjFYZoNxMeZuwEXpxG4bRGs58P7XSx1fAzedX6oGIlcSLljKH4I1BHt6gJhPIHYNXQzq_a0hX54C1m1VDVP_kot8ui1YKZil_riROK_Xk4ktnOTAqXo9z4uNBqzzH2k0J2YNiCb8VOdbp7kjmH9sPLI-jb-ociy0wSkGZc1e8saGIkkSm4eUASvX_M_TTDD99OrgoIS2Vx07Tw4lK5yd28EMVBUzy2OypuPVf9PyoDGv_4241x5PpJsA9IKocD7AgwxJ3E7FBFhvuSP8c5wspkbQxBwv5nnk2zAxuZsiJeK0o3JSxjkZJEkeVY4mA3VV9SvSXEKAFg2h9J3CR9PTwrZoVBruycVtWJ4it5jroXff-aGlLoRAO0g3gtfjkJb3tw6SJTFOA49iJci76Mj8Adz3eeEEGxTxfDzh_lq0jXxTk7cQSaR2_ChYLHaoorrrFmAvWgDH_lSvlISIgey-SzUoJM9RAy4gVFdmg-XCQQlpMh_d1-IACO3EfBvYKWE-6uGIqx1nZhn9WIDdSqMp6940xRxl0vQy8vYCQ5q8U
Data for Sign in string:
{"type":"PAYMENT_STATUS_CHANGE","paymentId":"1c6e834f074ec941","status":"FAILED","timestamp":1652688286662,"amount":"164.69","currency":"GBP","description":"This is test payment","paymentType":"ONE_OFF","bankName":"Diamond bank","destinationAccount":"GBP2","createdAt":"2022-05-16T08:04:32.994","updatedAt":"2022-05-16T08:04:46.662","customerReference":"1199","refundedAmount":"0.00"}
Expo (exponent):
AQAB
Below is the code to Decrypt the signature using public key.
public static void DecryptUsingPublicKey(string publicKey, string expo, string signature)
{
var modulus = ConvertToBase64(publicKey);
var exponent = Convert.FromBase64String(expo);
RSACryptoServiceProvider csp = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(2048);
var _publicKey = csp.ExportParameters(false);
_publicKey.Modulus = modulus;
_publicKey.Exponent = exponent;
csp.ImportParameters(_publicKey);
var dataBytes = ConvertToBase64(signature);
var plainText = csp.Decrypt(dataBytes, false);
var returnData = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(plainText);
Console.WriteLine($"value: {returnData}");
}
Below is the code for Verify signature using public key
public static void VerifySignature(string signature, string pKey, string dataForSign)
{
string pKeyNew = pKey;
pKeyNew = pKeyNew.Replace("_", "/").Replace("-", "+");
string publicKey = $"<RSAKeyValue><Modulus>{pKeyNew}==</Modulus><Exponent>AQAB</Exponent></RSAKeyValue>";
var encoder = new UTF8Encoding();
byte[] dataForSignAsBytes = encoder.GetBytes(dataForSign);
byte[] signatureAsBytes = ConvertToBase64(signature);
RSACryptoServiceProvider rsaCryptoServiceProvider = new RSACryptoServiceProvider();
rsaCryptoServiceProvider.FromXmlString(publicKey);
var hashData = SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(dataForSignAsBytes);
var result1 = rsaCryptoServiceProvider.VerifyData(dataForSignAsBytes, CryptoConfig.MapNameToOID("SHA256"), signatureAsBytes);
var result2 = rsaCryptoServiceProvider.VerifyHash(hashData, CryptoConfig.MapNameToOID("SHA256"), signatureAsBytes);
var result3 = rsaCryptoServiceProvider.VerifyHash(hashData, signatureAsBytes, HashAlgorithmName.SHA256, RSASignaturePadding.Pkcs1);
var result4 = rsaCryptoServiceProvider.VerifyData(dataForSignAsBytes, signatureAsBytes, HashAlgorithmName.SHA256, RSASignaturePadding.Pkcs1);
Console.WriteLine(result1);
Console.WriteLine(result2);
Console.WriteLine(result3);
Console.WriteLine(result4);
}
ConvertToBase64 function
public static byte[] ConvertToBase64(string data)
{
byte[] cyperBuffer;
string dataNew = data;
dataNew = dataNew.Replace("_", "/").Replace("-", "+");
try
{
if (dataNew.Substring(dataNew.Length - 1) != "=")
{
dataNew += "=";
}
cyperBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(dataNew);
}
catch
{
dataNew += "=";
try
{
cyperBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(dataNew);
}
catch
{
//If any error occured while convert to base64 then append '=' at the end.
dataNew += "=";
cyperBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(dataNew);
}
}
return cyperBuffer;
}

This is a conversion mistake; you need to decode the base 64 signature, not encode the signature, so the following line is wrong:
byte[] signatureAsBytes = ConvertToBase64(signature);
it should be something like:
byte[] signatureAsBytes = ConvertFromBase64(signature);
Decryption is modular exponentiation with a private key. Furthermore, encryption normally uses a different padding scheme than signature generation, so you'd expect that the unpadding would fail if you try and decrypt. Only verification is possible.

Generate HMAC-SHA256 hash with BouncyCastle

I need to generate a HMAC-SHA256 hash in a PCL (developing for Xamarin Forms) which doesn't support the .NET built-in HMAC/cryptography classes, so I'm working with BouncyCastle to implement my cryptography classes.
I need to generate a HMAC-SHA256 hash, but I haven't been able to find any example on Google, nor does BouncyCastle seem to have any documentation for this. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks to the solution here I came up with this code:
public class HmacSha256
{
public byte[] Hash(string text, string key)
{
var hmac = new HMac(new Sha256Digest());
hmac.Init(new KeyParameter(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key)));
byte[] result = new byte[hmac.GetMacSize()];
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
hmac.BlockUpdate(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
hmac.DoFinal(result, 0);
return result;
}
}
Corresponding unit test (uses FluentAssertions):
[TestClass]
public class HmacSha256Tests
{
private readonly HmacSha256 _hmac = new HmacSha256();
[TestMethod]
public void Hash_GeneratesValidHash_ForInput()
{
// Arrange
string input = "hello";
string key = "test";
string expected = "F151EA24BDA91A18E89B8BB5793EF324B2A02133CCE15A28A719ACBD2E58A986";
// Act
byte[] output = _hmac.Hash(input, key);
string outputHex = BitConverter.ToString(output).Replace("-", "").ToUpper();
// Assert
expected.Should().Be(outputHex);
}
}

Using this PCL offshoot of BouncyCastle https://www.nuget.org/packages/BouncyCastle-PCL/1.0.0.6 it's really easy, in fact identical to the windows api.
public string ComputeHMAC(string message)
{
var keyBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Constants.API_KEY);
var messageBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message);
var hmac = new HMACSHA256(keyBytes);
byte[] result = hmac.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
return Convert.ToBase64String(result);
}
And a unit test using the actual .Net version:
[Test, AutoMoqData]
public void Hash_Algorithm_Correct (
[NoAutoProperties] HashMacService sut,
string message)
{
string expected;
var key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Constants.API_KEY);
using (var hmac = new HMACSHA256(key))
{
var hash = hmac.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message));
expected = Convert.ToBase64String(hash);
}
var result = sut.ComputeHMAC(message);
Assert.That(result, Is.EqualTo(expected));
}
I was using PCLCrypto but it kept crashing on Xamarin iOS, this was much cleaner and could be unit tested, wheras PCLCrypto required the platform apis so had to be deployed to a device.

private static void CreateToken(string message, string key)
{
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
byte[]keyByte = encoding.GetBytes(key);
HMACSHA256 hmacsha = new HMACSHA256(keyByte);
byte[]messageBytes = encoding.GetBytes(message);
byte[]hashmessage = hmacsha.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
Console.WriteLine(ByteToString(hashmessage));
}
public static string ByteToString(byte[]buff) {
string sbinary = "";
for (int i = 0; i < buff.Length; i++) {
sbinary += buff[i].ToString("X2"); // hex format
}
return (sbinary);
}
Above code saved my time while working for HMAC-SHA256, I hope this may help someone and here is the reference in detail http://billatnapier.com/security01.aspx

phpseclib sign and verify in C#

I need to sign the string with private Key using RSA phpseclib and then verify it in C# . I have seen many examples of how to encrypt in C# and decrypt in php, but none of how to sign string in php and verify in .NET.
here is php code:
include('Crypt/RSA.php');
$info = "Something";
$PrivateKey= "<RSAKeyValue><Modulus>3C5QWo4H+............"; //long string
$unsignedString = base64_encode($info);
$signedString = HashAndSignBytes($info, $PrivateKey);
file_put_contents('file.txt', $unsignedString."\n".$signedString);
function HashAndSignBytes($stringToSign, $Key) {
$rsa = new Crypt_RSA();
$rsa->loadKey($Key); // private key
$rsa->setSignatureMode(CRYPT_RSA_SIGNATURE_PKCS1);
$signature = $rsa->sign($stringToSign);
return base64_encode($signature);
}
and here is my attempt to read the file and verify it in C#:
const string publicKey = #"<RSAKeyValue><Modulus>3C5QWo4H.....";
TextReader reader = new StreamReader(path, Encoding.ASCII);
var unsignedString = reader.ReadLine();
var signedString = reader.ReadLine();
reader.Close();
if (VerifySignedHash(unsignedString,signedString, publicKey)) {
//some code
}
private bool VerifySignedHash(string stringToVerify, string signedString, string publicKey)
{
var byteConverter = new ASCIIEncoding();
var dataToVerify = Convert.FromBase64String(stringToVerify);
var signedData = Convert.FromBase64String(signedString);
try
{
// Create a new instance of RSACryptoServiceProvider using the
// key from RSAParameters.
var rsaAlg = new RSACryptoServiceProvider();
rsaAlg.FromXmlString(publicKey);
// Verify the data using the signature. Pass a new instance of SHA1CryptoServiceProvider
// to specify the use of SHA1 for hashing.
return rsaAlg.VerifyData(dataToVerify, new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider(), signedData);
}
catch (CryptographicException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
return false;
}
}
verfication fails...

In your "signing" code, you base64encode the original string, then write that string to the output file. However, on the C# side, you read that value into unsignedString, but never reverse the base64 encoding.
The end result is that you're trying to verify the bytes of the base64Encoded string, not the data itself, so the VerifyData step fails.
Think that's your problem.
Modifying the following line might solve the problem:
var dataToVerify = Convert.FromBase64String(stringToVerify);

Calculating HMACSHA256 using c# to match payment provider example

For a payment provider, I need to calculate a hash-based message authentication code, using HMAC-SHA256. That is causing me quite a bit of trouble.
The payment provider gives two examples of orrectly calculated authentication code in pseudo-code. All keys are in hex.
Method 1
key = 57617b5d2349434b34734345635073433835777e2d244c31715535255a366773755a4d70532a5879793238235f707c4f7865753f3f446e633a21575643303f66
message = "amount=100&currency=EUR"
MAC = HMAC-SHA256( hexDecode(key), message )
result = b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905
Method 2
message = "amount=100&currency=EUR"
Ki = 61574d6b157f757d02457573556645750e0341481b127a07476303136c005145436c7b46651c6e4f4f040e1569464a794e534309097258550c17616075060950
Ko = 0b3d27017f151f17682f1f193f0c2f1f64692b227178106d2d096979066a3b2f2906112c0f760425256e647f032c2013243929636318323f667d0b0a1f6c633a
MAC = SHA256( hexDecode(Ko) + SHA256( hexDecode(Ki) + message ) )
result = b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905
I tried to write the code to do this, after doing some research, but I keep coming up with different results.
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var key = "57617b5d2349434b34734345635073433835777e2d244c31715535255a366773755a4d70532a5879793238235f707c4f7865753f3f446e633a21575643303f66";
var ki = "61574d6b157f757d02457573556645750e0341481b127a07476303136c005145436c7b46651c6e4f4f040e1569464a794e534309097258550c17616075060950";
var ko = "0b3d27017f151f17682f1f193f0c2f1f64692b227178106d2d096979066a3b2f2906112c0f760425256e647f032c2013243929636318323f667d0b0a1f6c633a";
var mm = "amount=100&currency=EUR";
var result1 = CalcHMACSHA256Hash(HexDecode(key), mm);
var result2 = CalcSha256Hash(string.Format("{0}{1}", HexDecode(ko), CalcSha256Hash(HexDecode(ki) + mm)));
Console.WriteLine("Expected: b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905");
Console.WriteLine("Actual 1: " + result1);
Console.WriteLine("Actual 2: " + result2);
Console.WriteLine("------------------------------");
Console.ReadKey();
}
private static string HexDecode(string hex)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i <= hex.Length - 2; i += 2)
{
sb.Append(Convert.ToString(Convert.ToChar(Int32.Parse(hex.Substring(i, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber))));
}
return sb.ToString();
}
private static string CalcHMACSHA256Hash(string plaintext, string salt)
{
string result = "";
var enc = Encoding.Default;
byte[]
baText2BeHashed = enc.GetBytes(plaintext),
baSalt = enc.GetBytes(salt);
System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256 hasher = new HMACSHA256(baSalt);
byte[] baHashedText = hasher.ComputeHash(baText2BeHashed);
result = string.Join("", baHashedText.ToList().Select(b => b.ToString("x2")).ToArray());
return result;
}
public static string CalcSha256Hash(string input)
{
SHA256 sha256 = new SHA256Managed();
byte[] sha256Bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input);
byte[] cryString = sha256.ComputeHash(sha256Bytes);
string sha256Str = string.Empty;
for (int i = 0; i < cryString.Length; i++)
{
sha256Str += cryString[i].ToString("x2");
}
return sha256Str;
}
And this is the result I get:
Expected: b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905
Actual 1: 421ce16f2036bb9f2a3770c16f01e9220f0232d45580584ca41768fd16c15fe6
Actual 2: 290f14398bf8c0959dfc963e2fd9c377534c6fec1983025d2ab192382f132b92
So with none of the two methods, I can get the result the provider example wants.
What am I missing here? Is it encoding? Is my hexDecode screwed up?
Test tool from payment provider: http://tech.dibs.dk/dibs_api/other_features/hmac_tool/
PHP sample code: http://tech.dibspayment.com/dibs_api/other_features/mac_calculation/

Edit: You likely are looking for a quick and simple way to do HMAC-SHA256 and not get into the finer details. The original question asks of those finer details which are explained further below.
I want to perform a HMAC-SHA256 on a byte[] message input
using System.Security.Cryptography;
...
private static byte[] HashHMAC(byte[] key, byte[] message)
{
var hash = new HMACSHA256(key);
return hash.ComputeHash(message);
}
I want to perform HMAC-SHA256 but I have a hex string input
In .NET 5 and above, use System.Convert.FromHexString like so, (thanks #proximab). If you're on pre-.NET 5, scroll to "Helper functions" which has alternative solutions.
using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
...
private static byte[] HashHMACHex(string keyHex, string messageHex)
{
var key = Convert.FromHexString(hexKey);
var message = Convert.FromHexString(messageHex);
var hash = new HMACSHA256(key);
return hash.ComputeHash(message);
}
I'm using a strange API service that sort of does HMAC, but it's something custom
Continue reading. You likely want to use "Method 2" below as a reference point and adjust it to however your service wants you to implement HMAC for message anti-tampering.
How HMAC-SHA256 Works (should you need to know how...)
Here we will compute an HMAC-SHA256 manually (this answers "Method 2" from the original question).
Assume outerKey, innerKey, and message are already byte arrays, we perform the following:
Notation: Assume A + B concatenates byte array A and B. You may
alternatively see A || B notation used in more academic settings.
HMAC = SHA256( outerKey + SHA256( innerKey + message ) )
. . `------------------´ . .
\ \ `innerData` / /
\ `------------------------´ /
\ `innerHash` /
`----------------------------------´
`data`
So the code can be broken down into these steps (using the above as a guide):
Create an empty buffer byte[] innerData the length of innerKey.Length + message.Length (again assuming byte arrays)
Copy the innerKey and the message into the byte[] innerData
Compute SHA256 of innerData and store it in byte[] innerHash
Create an empty buffer byte[] data the length of outerKey.Length + innerHash.Length
Copy the outerKey and innerHash (from step #3)
Compute the final hash of data and store it in byte[] result and return it.
To do the byte copying I'm using the Buffer.BlockCopy() function since it apparently faster than some other ways (source).
n.b. There is likely (read: most certainly) a better way to do this using the the new ReadOnlySpan<T> API.
We can translate those steps into the following:
using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
...
private static byte[] HashSHA(byte[] innerKey, byte[] outerKey, byte[] message)
{
var hash = new SHA256Managed();
// Compute the hash for the inner data first
byte[] innerData = new byte[innerKey.Length + message.Length];
Buffer.BlockCopy(innerKey, 0, innerData, 0, innerKey.Length);
Buffer.BlockCopy(message, 0, innerData, innerKey.Length, message.Length);
byte[] innerHash = hash.ComputeHash(innerData);
// Compute the entire hash
byte[] data = new byte[outerKey.Length + innerHash.Length];
Buffer.BlockCopy(outerKey, 0, data, 0, outerKey.Length);
Buffer.BlockCopy(innerHash, 0, data, outerKey.Length, innerHash.Length);
byte[] result = hash.ComputeHash(data);
return result;
}
Helper functions
string -> byte[]
You have plain ASCII or UTF8 text, but need it to be a byte[].
Use ASCIIEncoding or UTF8Encoding or whichever exotic encoding you're using.
private static byte[] StringEncode(string text)
{
var encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
return encoding.GetBytes(text);
}
byte[] -> hex string
You have a byte[], but you need it to be a hex string.
private static string HashEncode(byte[] hash)
{
return BitConverter.ToString(hash).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
}
hex string -> byte[]
You have a hex string, but you need it to be a byte[]`.
.NET 5 and above
private static byte[] HexDecode(string hex) =>
System.Convert.FromHexString(hex);
Before .NET 5 (thanks #bobince)
private static byte[] HexDecode(string hex)
{
var bytes = new byte[hex.Length / 2];
for (int i = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++)
{
bytes[i] = byte.Parse(hex.Substring(i * 2, 2), NumberStyles.HexNumber);
}
return bytes;
}
n.b. If you need a performance tuned version on .NET Framework 4.x, you can alternatively backport the .NET 5+ version (by replacing ReadOnlySpan<byte> with byte[]). It uses proper lookup tables and conscious about hot-code paths. You can reference the .NET 5 (MIT licensed) System.Convert code on Github.
For completeness, here are the final methods answering the question using both "Method 1" and "Method 2"
"Method 1" (using .NET libraries)
private static string HashHMACHex(string keyHex, string message)
{
byte[] hash = HashHMAC(HexDecode(keyHex), StringEncode(message));
return HashEncode(hash);
}
"Method 2" (manually computed)
private static string HashSHAHex(string innerKeyHex, string outerKeyHex, string message)
{
byte[] hash = HashSHA(HexDecode(innerKeyHex), HexDecode(outerKeyHex), StringEncode(message));
return HashEncode(hash);
}
We can perform a quick sanity check with a console app:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string message = "amount=100&currency=EUR";
string expectedHex = "b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905";
Console.WriteLine("Expected: " + expectedHex);
// Test out the HMAC hash method
string key = "57617b5d2349434b34734345635073433835777e2d244c31715535255a366773755a4d70532a5879793238235f707c4f7865753f3f446e633a21575643303f66";
string hashHMACHex = HashHMACHex(key, message);
Console.WriteLine("Method 1: " + hashHMACHex);
// Test out the SHA hash method
string innerKey = "61574d6b157f757d02457573556645750e0341481b127a07476303136c005145436c7b46651c6e4f4f040e1569464a794e534309097258550c17616075060950";
string outerKey = "0b3d27017f151f17682f1f193f0c2f1f64692b227178106d2d096979066a3b2f2906112c0f760425256e647f032c2013243929636318323f667d0b0a1f6c633a";
string hashSHAHex = HashSHAHex(innerKey, outerKey, message);
Console.WriteLine("Method 2: " + hashSHAHex);
}
You should have all the hashes line up correctly:
Expected: b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905
Method 1: b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905
Method 2: b436e3e86cb3800b3864aeecc8d06c126f005e7645803461717a8e4b2de3a905
The original code for this answer can be accessed at:
http://pastebin.com/xAAuZrJX

Here's a string extension method for getting a fairly standard HMAC SHA 256 token for a given string:
usage:
myMessageString.HmacSha256Digest(mySecret)
string extension method:
public static string HmacSha256Digest(this string message, string secret)
{
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] keyBytes = encoding.GetBytes(secret);
byte[] messageBytes = encoding.GetBytes(message);
System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256 cryptographer = new System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256(keyBytes);
byte[] bytes = cryptographer.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
return BitConverter.ToString(bytes).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
}

You can use this method for HMACSHA256.
string key = "your key";
string message = "your message";
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] keyByte = encoding.GetBytes(key);
HMACSHA256 hmacsha256 = new HMACSHA256(keyByte);
byte[] messageBytes = encoding.GetBytes(message);
byte[] hashmessage = hmacsha256.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
return ByteToString(hashmessage);
Here is the ByteToString method:
public static string ByteToString(byte[] buff)
{
string sbinary = "";
for (int i = 0; i < buff.Length; i++)
{
sbinary += buff[i].ToString("X2"); // hex format
}
return (sbinary);
}

A SHA hash is calculated on a sequence of bytes. Bytes are a profoundly different datatype to characters. You should not use character Strings to store binary data such as hashes.
sb.Append(Convert.ToString(Convert.ToChar(Int32.Parse(hex.Substring(i, 2)...
This creates a character string by reading each encoded byte and turning into a character of the same Unicode code point number. This is equivalent to decoding the bytes 0-255 using the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) encoding, due to that encoding's property of matching the first 256 code points in Unicode.
var enc = Encoding.Default; [...]
baSalt = enc.GetBytes(salt);
byte[] sha256Bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input);
These both convert the characters back to bytes using the system default encoding. This encoding varies between installs, but it will never be ISO-8859-1 - even the similar Western European code page 1252 has different characters in the range 0x80-0x9F.
Consequently the byte array you are using doesn't contain the bytes implied by the example hex sequences. A cheap fix would be to use Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1") instead of the default encoding, but really you should be using a bytes array to store data in the first place instead of a String, eg:
byte[] key= new byte[] { 0x57, 0x61, 0x7b, 0x5d, 0x23, 0x49, ... };
and pass that directly into ComputeHash.
If you must initialise data from a hex string, parse it directly into a byte array, eg:
private static byte[] HexDecode(string hex) {
var bytes= new byte[hex.Length/2];
for (int i= 0; i<bytes.Length; i++) {
bytes[i]= byte.Parse(hex.Substring(i*2, 2), NumberStyles.HexNumber);
}
return bytes;
}

I realize the question is answered, but I am posting this in case others need it. Here is a snippet of code created by the payment provider (DIBS):
/**
* calculateMac
* Calculates the MAC key from a Dictionary<string, string> and a secret key
* #param params_dict The Dictionary<string, string> object containing all keys and their values for MAC calculation
* #param K_hexEnc String containing the hex encoded secret key from DIBS Admin
* #return String containig the hex encoded MAC key calculated
**/
public static string calculateMac(Dictionary<string, string> paramsDict, string kHexEnc)
{
//Create the message for MAC calculation sorted by the key
var keys = paramsDict.Keys.ToList();
keys.Sort();
var msg = "";
foreach (var key in keys)
{
if (key != keys[0]) msg += "&";
msg += key + "=" + paramsDict[key];
}
//Decoding the secret Hex encoded key and getting the bytes for MAC calculation
var kBytes = new byte[kHexEnc.Length / 2];
for (var i = 0; i < kBytes.Length; i++)
{
kBytes[i] = byte.Parse(kHexEnc.Substring(i * 2, 2), NumberStyles.HexNumber);
}
//Getting bytes from message
var msgBytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(msg);
//Calculate MAC key
var hash = new HMACSHA256(kBytes);
var macBytes = hash.ComputeHash(msgBytes);
var mac = BitConverter.ToString(macBytes).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
return mac;
}
http://tech.dibspayment.com/DX/Hosted/HMAC

Thanks you saved my time.
request.Method = "GET";
string signature = "";
string strtime = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH\\:mm\\:ssZ");
string secret = "xxxx";
string message = "sellerid:email:" + strtime;
var encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] keyByte = encoding.GetBytes(secret);
byte[] messageBytes = encoding.GetBytes(message);
using (var hmacsha256 = new HMACSHA256(keyByte))
{
var hash = new HMACSHA256(keyByte);
byte[] signature1 = hash.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
signature = BitConverter.ToString(signature1).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
}
request.Headers.Add("authorization", "HMAC-SHA256" + " " +
"emailaddress=xxx#xx.com,timestamp=" + strtime + ",signature=" + signature);
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

private static string GenerateSignature(string data, string signatureKey)
{
var keyByte = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(signatureKey);
using (var hmacsha256 = new HMACSHA256(keyByte))
{
hmacsha256.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data));
return hmacsha256.Hash.Aggregate("", (current, t) => current + t.ToString("X2")).ToLower();
}
}