diff --git a/gateway/internal/vkpay/vkpay.go b/gateway/internal/vkpay/vkpay.go
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+// Package vkpay verifies VK Mini Apps payment ("голоса") callback signatures. VK signs each
+// payment notification (get_item / order_status_change) and expects the receiving server to verify
+// it with the app's secret before acting. The signature is MD5 — mandated by VK's payment protocol,
+// not a security choice on our part — so this package uses crypto/md5 deliberately.
+package vkpay
+
+import (
+	"crypto/md5"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Verify reports whether params carry a valid VK payment signature under secret. VK computes the
+// signature as the MD5 of the sig-excluded parameters, sorted alphabetically by name and
+// concatenated as key=value with no separators, with the app secret appended. The comparison is
+// case-insensitive over the hex digest.
+func Verify(params map[string]string, secret string) bool {
+	got := params["sig"]
+	if got == "" || secret == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	keys := make([]string, 0, len(params))
+	for k := range params {
+		if k == "sig" {
+			continue
+		}
+		keys = append(keys, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+	var b strings.Builder
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		b.WriteString(k)
+		b.WriteString("=")
+		b.WriteString(params[k])
+	}
+	b.WriteString(secret)
+	sum := md5.Sum([]byte(b.String()))
+	return strings.EqualFold(hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]), got)
+}
diff --git a/gateway/internal/vkpay/vkpay_test.go b/gateway/internal/vkpay/vkpay_test.go
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+package vkpay
+
+import (
+	"crypto/md5"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"maps"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// vkSig computes a valid VK signature the way VK does, for the fixtures (sig excluded, sorted
+// key=value concatenation, secret appended, MD5 hex).
+func vkSig(params map[string]string, secret string) string {
+	keys := make([]string, 0, len(params))
+	for k := range params {
+		if k == "sig" {
+			continue
+		}
+		keys = append(keys, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+	var b strings.Builder
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		b.WriteString(k + "=" + params[k])
+	}
+	b.WriteString(secret)
+	sum := md5.Sum([]byte(b.String()))
+	return hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
+}
+
+func clone(m map[string]string) map[string]string {
+	out := make(map[string]string, len(m))
+	maps.Copy(out, m)
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestVerify(t *testing.T) {
+	const secret = "app_secret"
+	base := map[string]string{
+		"notification_type": "order_status_change",
+		"app_id":            "123",
+		"user_id":           "456",
+		"receiver_id":       "456",
+		"order_id":          "789",
+		"date":              "1700000000",
+		"status":            "chargeable",
+		"item":              "019f47a0-6f9e-7000-8000-000000000000",
+		"item_price":        "10",
+	}
+	valid := clone(base)
+	// VK sends the digest uppercase; the verifier must accept it case-insensitively.
+	valid["sig"] = strings.ToUpper(vkSig(base, secret))
+
+	if !Verify(valid, secret) {
+		t.Fatal("valid VK signature rejected")
+	}
+
+	tampered := clone(valid)
+	tampered["item_price"] = "1"
+	if Verify(tampered, secret) {
+		t.Error("accepted a tampered amount")
+	}
+
+	if Verify(valid, "wrong-secret") {
+		t.Error("accepted under the wrong secret")
+	}
+
+	noSig := clone(valid)
+	delete(noSig, "sig")
+	if Verify(noSig, secret) {
+		t.Error("accepted a callback with no signature")
+	}
+}