diff --git a/IzzyLib/httpSignatures.py b/IzzyLib/httpSignatures.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4985ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/IzzyLib/httpSignatures.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+'''
+Functions for working with HTTP signatures
+Note: I edited this while tired, so this may be broken
+'''
+from base64 import b64decode, b64encode
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
+from Crypto.Hash import SHA, SHA256, SHA512
+from Crypto.Signature import PKCS1_v1_5
+
+from .misc import formatUTC
+from . import logging
+
+
+CACHE = TTLCache(ttl='1h')
+HASHES = {
+	'sha1': SHA,
+	'sha256': SHA256,
+	'sha512': SHA512
+}
+
+
+def sign_headers(headers, target, privkey, key_id):
+	'''sign headers and add the signature to them'''
+	key = RSA.importKey(privkey)
+	headers = {k.lower(): v for k, v in headers.items()}
+	headers['date'] = formatUTC(None)
+	headers['(request-target)'] = target
+
+	used_headers = headers.keys()
+
+	sigstring = build_sigstring(headers, used_headers, target=target)
+	signed_sigstring = sign_sigstring(sigstring, key)
+
+	sig = {
+		'keyId': key_id,
+		'algorithm': 'rsa-sha256',
+		'headers': ' '.join(used_headers),
+		'signature': signed_sigstring
+	}
+
+	sig_header = ['{}="{}"'.format(k, v) for k, v in sig.items()]
+	headers['signature'] = ','.join(sig_header)
+
+	del headers['(request-target)']
+
+	return headers
+
+
+def validate(headers, pubkey):
+	'''validate a signature header from an incoming request'''
+	sig = parse_sig(headers.get('signature'))
+
+	if not sig:
+		raise MissingData('Missing signature')
+
+	pkcs = PKCS1_v1_5.new(RSA.importKey(pubkey))
+
+	sigstring = build_sigstring(request, sig['headers'])
+	logging.debug(f'Signing string: {sigstring}')
+
+	signalg, hashalg = sig['algorithm'].split('-')
+	sigdata = b64decode(sig['signature'])
+
+	h = HASHES[hashalg].new()
+	h.update(sigstring.encode('ascii'))
+	result = pkcs.verify(h, sigdata)
+
+	logging.debug(f'Sig verification result: {result}')
+
+	if not result:
+		raise error.ValidationFailed('Failed signature validation')
+
+	else:
+		return True
+
+
+def parse_sig(sig):
+	if not sig:
+		raise error.MissingData('Missing signature header')
+
+	parts = {'headers': 'date'}
+
+	for part in sig.strip().split(','):
+		k, v = part.replace('"', '').split('=', maxsplit=1)
+
+		if k == 'headers':
+			parts['headers'] = v.split()
+
+		else:
+			parts[k] = v
+
+	return parts
+
+
+def build_sigstring(headers, used_headers):
+	string = ''
+
+	for header in used_headers:
+		string += f'{header.lower()}: {headers[header]}'
+
+		if header != list(used_headers)[-1]:
+			string += '\n'
+
+	return string
+
+
+def sign_sigstring(sigstring, key, hashalg='SHA256'):
+	cached_data = cache.sig.fetch(sigstring)
+
+	if cached_data:
+		logging.info('Returning cache sigstring')
+		return cached_data
+
+	pkcs = PKCS1_v1_5.new(key)
+	h = HASHES[hashalg.lower()].new()
+	h.update(sigstring.encode('ascii'))
+
+	sigdata = b64encode(pkcs.sign(h)).decode('ascii')
+	cache.sig.store(sigstring, sigdata)
+
+	return sigdata
+
+
+class error:
+	class MissingData(Exception):
+		'''raise when data is expected but nothing is returned'''
+
+	class ValidationFailed(Exception):
+		'''raise when signature validation fails'''
diff --git a/IzzyLib/misc.py b/IzzyLib/misc.py
index 575e151..6940241 100644
--- a/IzzyLib/misc.py
+++ b/IzzyLib/misc.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Miscellaneous functions
 
 import random, string
 
+from datetime import datetime
+
 from . import logging
 
 
@@ -37,6 +39,11 @@ def randomgen(chars=20):
 	return ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters + string.digits, k=chars))
 
 
+def formatUTC(timestamp=None):
+	date = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp) if timestamp else datetime.utcnow()
+	return date.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')
+
+
 def merp():
 	logging.setLevel('MERP')
 	logging.merp('heck')
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0d8024
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pycryptodome>=3.9.4