[Cyberduck-trac] [Cyberduck] #3084: Amazon S3 mac

[Cyberduck]

#3084: Amazon S3 mac
---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
 Reporter:  billsingl@…          |        Owner:  dkocher   
     Type:  defect               |       Status:  closed    
 Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:            
Component:  s3                   |      Version:  3.1.1     
 Severity:  normal               |   Resolution:  worksforme
 Keywords:                       |  
---------------------------------+------------------------------------------

Comment(by dkocher):

 Replying to [comment:2 javamate]:
 > It might be useful to indicate on the Wiki page that your Amazon Access
 Key goes in the username field and your secret key goes in the password
 field.  When I did this, it worked, but it was not clear at first.

 I have added this information to the wiki. Feel free to clarify it further
 from your experience. Sometimes as a developer it is difficult to know
 what is clear and what is not.

 > I did notice that in the username field it indicated to enter your AWS
 access key, which was the tipoff, but even still I was reluctant to put my
 secret access key as the password, since AWS indicates specifically that
 your secret key should never be sent with requests to AWS.

 From the S3 documentation:
 ''To prove that you are the owner of the account making the request, you
 must include a signature. For all requests, you calculate the signature
 with your Secret Access Key. AWS uses the Access Key ID in the request to
 look up your Secret Access Key and then calculates a signature with the
 key. If the calculated signature matches the signature you sent, the
 request is considered authentic. Otherwise, the request fails
 authentication and is not processed.''

 >
 > This brings up a question: what does Cyberduck do with the secret key?

 So, we need the Secret Access Kez to calculate the signature.

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://trac.cyberduck.ch/ticket/3084#comment:3>
Cyberduck <http://cyberduck.ch>
FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X.