Method: projects.serviceAccounts.signBlob

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
  • JSON representation
• Response body
  • JSON representation
• Authorization Scopes

Note: This method is in the process of being deprecated. Call the signBlob() method of the Cloud IAM Service Account Credentials API instead.

Signs a blob using a service account's system-managed private key.

HTTP request

POST https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:signBlob

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters

name

string The resource name of the service account in the following format: projects/{PROJECT_ID}/serviceAccounts/{ACCOUNT}. Using - as a wildcard for the PROJECT_ID will infer the project from the account. The ACCOUNT value can be the email address or the uniqueId of the service account. Authorization requires the following Google IAM permission on the specified resource name: iam.serviceAccounts.signBlob

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{ "bytesToSign": string }

Fields
bytesToSign	string (bytes format) The bytes to sign. A base64-encoded string.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

The service account sign blob response.

JSON representation
{ "keyId": string, "signature": string }

Fields
keyId	string The id of the key used to sign the blob.
signature	string (bytes format) The signed blob. A base64-encoded string.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.