diff --git a/example/cookie_signer.dart b/example/cookie_signer.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..48256f2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/cookie_signer.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:math';
+import 'package:angel_framework/angel_framework.dart';
+import 'package:angel_framework/http.dart';
+import 'package:angel_security/angel_security.dart';
+import 'package:http_parser/http_parser.dart';
+import 'package:logging/logging.dart';
+import 'package:pretty_logging/pretty_logging.dart';
+
+main() async {
+  // Logging boilerplate.
+  Logger.root.onRecord.listen(prettyLog);
+
+  // Create an app, and HTTP driver.
+  var app = Angel(logger: Logger('cookie_signer')), http = AngelHttp(app);
+
+  // Create a cookie signer. Uses an SHA256 Hmac by default.
+  var signer = CookieSigner.fromStringKey(
+      'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ab');
+
+  // When a user visits /getid, give them a (signed) uniqid cookie.
+  // When they visit /cookies, print their verified cookies.
+  var rnd = Random.secure();
+
+  // Endpoint to give a signed cookie.
+  app.get('/getid', (req, res) {
+    // Write the uniqid cookie.
+    var uniqid = rnd.nextInt(65536);
+    signer.writeCookies(res, [
+      Cookie('uniqid', uniqid.toString()),
+    ]);
+
+    // Send a response.
+    res.write('uniqid=$uniqid');
+  });
+
+  // Endpoint to dump all verified cookies.
+  //
+  // The [onInvalidCookie] callback is optional, but
+  // here we will use it to log invalid cookies.
+  app.get('/cookies', (req, res) {
+    var verifiedCookies = signer.readCookies(req, onInvalidCookie: (cookie) {
+      app.logger.warning('Invalid cookie: $cookie');
+    });
+    res.writeln('${verifiedCookies.length} verified cookie(s)');
+    res.writeln('${req.cookies.length} total unverified cookie(s)');
+    for (var cookie in verifiedCookies) {
+      res.writeln('${cookie.name}=${cookie.value}');
+    }
+  });
+
+  // 404 otherwise.
+  app.fallback((req, res) => throw AngelHttpException.notFound(
+      message: 'The only valid endpoints are /getid and /cookies.'));
+
+  // Start the server.
+  await http.startServer('127.0.0.1', 3000);
+  print('Cookie signer example listening at ${http.uri}');
+}
diff --git a/lib/src/cookie_signer.dart b/lib/src/cookie_signer.dart
index 51493b4c..dbb1f553 100644
--- a/lib/src/cookie_signer.dart
+++ b/lib/src/cookie_signer.dart
@@ -90,12 +90,13 @@ class CookieSigner {
   /// Returns a new cookie, replacing the value of an input
   /// [cookie] with one that is signed with the [hmac].
   ///
-  /// The signature is:
-  /// `base64Url(cookie.value) + "." + base64Url(sig)`
+  /// The new value is:
+  /// `cookie.value + "." + base64Url(sig)`
   ///
   /// Where `sig` is the cookie's value, signed with the [hmac].
   Cookie createSignedCookie(Cookie cookie) {
-    return cookieWithNewValue(cookie, computeCookieSignature(cookie.value));
+    return cookieWithNewValue(
+        cookie, cookie.value + '.' + computeCookieSignature(cookie.value));
   }
 
   /// Returns a new [Cookie] that is the same as the input
@@ -110,13 +111,14 @@ class CookieSigner {
       ..secure = cookie.secure;
   }
 
-  /// Computes the signature of a [cookieValue], either for
+  /// Computes the *signature* of a [cookieValue], either for
   /// signing an outgoing cookie, or verifying an incoming cookie.
   String computeCookieSignature(String cookieValue) {
     // base64Url(cookie) + "." + base64Url(sig)
-    var encodedCookie = base64Url.encode(cookieValue.codeUnits);
+    // var encodedCookie = base64Url.encode(cookieValue.codeUnits);
     var sigBytes = hmac.convert(cookieValue.codeUnits).bytes;
-    var sig = base64Url.encode(sigBytes);
-    return encodedCookie + '.' + sig;
+    return base64Url.encode(sigBytes);
+    // var sig = base64Url.encode(sigBytes);
+    // return encodedCookie + '.' + sig;
   }
 }