Configure and validate Synctera webhook subscriptions with HMAC-SHA256 signature verification and rolling secret rotation

domain: docs.synctera.com · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Generate a signature secret by calling POST /v0/webhook_secrets with an empty body; store the returned secret value securely.
  2. Create a webhook subscription by calling POST /v0/webhooks with a JSON body specifying url, enabled_events (e.g., ["ACCOUNT.*", "CUSTOMER.UPDATED"]), is_enabled: true, and an optional metadata string.
  3. On each incoming webhook POST, extract the Synctera-Signature and Request-Timestamp headers from the request.
  4. Compute HMAC-SHA256 of the string Request-Timestamp + '.' + raw_request_body using your stored secret as the key; compare the hex digest to the header value using a constant-time comparison.
  5. Reject requests where the timestamp is more than 5 minutes in the past to prevent replay attacks.
  6. Rotate the secret without downtime by calling PUT /v0/webhook_secrets with {"is_rolling_secret": true}; this keeps the old secret valid for 24 hours while the new one is deployed.

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