While bcrypt remains an acceptable choice for password storage, depending on your specific use case you may also want to consider using scrypt (either via standard library or cryptography) or argon2id via argon2_cffi.
The bcrypt algorithm only handles passwords up to 72 characters, any charactersbeyond that are ignored. To work around this, a common approach is to hash apassword with a cryptographic hash (such as sha256) and then base64encode it to prevent NULL byte problems before hashing the result withbcrypt:
If the second argument to bcrypt.hashpw is recognized as of the form VALID_SALT.VALID_HASH, then the salt is automagically set to VALID_SALT, thus producing the same salt-hash-pair as the original password on identical pw input.
You need Python Development Headers to install py-bcrypt package, neededas a dependency. If you are on Mac OS or Windows, you probably have italready installed. Otherwise look for python-dev package for Debian-baseddistributives and for python-devel package for RedHat-based.
Although such methods are not actually overriden, the API is intentionallymade similar so that existing applications which make use of the previoushashing functions might be easily adapted to the stronger facility ofbcrypt.
Additionally a configuration value for BCRYPT_LOG_ROUNDS may be set inthe configuration of the Flask app. If none is provided this willinternally be assigned to 12. (This value is used in determining thecomplexity of the encryption, see bcrypt for more details.)
By default, the bcrypt algorithm has a maximum password length of 72 bytesand ignores any bytes beyond that. A common workaround is to hash thegiven password using a cryptographic hash (such as sha256), take itshexdigest to prevent NULL byte problems, and hash the result with bcrypt.If the BCRYPT_HANDLE_LONG_PASSWORDS configuration value is set to True,the workaround described above will be enabled.Warning: do not enable this option on a project that is already usingFlask-Bcrypt, or you will break password checking.Warning: if this option is enabled on an existing project, disabling itwill break password checking.
Generates a password hash using bcrypt. Specifying roundssets the log_rounds parameter of bcrypt.gensalt() which determinesthe complexity of the salt. 12 is the default value. Specifying prefixsets the prefix parameter of bcrypt.gensalt() which determines theversion of the algorithm used to create the hash.
Learn to use Python bcrypt module for hashing a plain text password into encrypted String. Also learn to match the supplied password with already stored encrypted password with bcrypt module.
I cannot tell where le...@openmailbox.org comes from. The users associated with the python bcrypt package are @pingou and @mhayden (which are not the problem), and groups infra-sig, epel-packagers-sig, and python-packagers-sig, but I can't tell where the problematic address comes from. It's not from the watchers either.
I'm looking to encrypt files using secure hashing and encryption algorithms in Python. Having used bcrypt in the past, I decided to use it for my passphrase calculator, then pass the output through SHA256 in order to get my 32 bytes of data, then use that with AES to encrypt/decrypt a file:
What I have determined is that it would be easy for an attacker to determine the original file size, however that doesn't reveal much about the file. SHA-256 isn't the best hashing algorithm in the world, but wrapping a bcrypt password would lead me to believe that all threats would be mitigated there. Due to bcrypt's ability to increase in security over time by adding more rounds to the algorithm, it seems like a pretty safe bet to use bcrypt for now.
Alternative: store the salt as header, and generate both theencryption key and the IV from bcrypt output (split the SHA-256output into two 128-bit chunks; first one is the key, second one isthe IV). This would keep header size to 16 bytes. But a random IV(from os.urandom(), like you do) is not bad either.
If your support library does not provide such a mode, you will have to do it "old style" by combining encryption with HMAC. This is not totally trivial to do. Best practice would be to generate an extra MAC key from bcrypt output (if you produce the encryption key, the IV and the MAC key, you will need a larger hash function, e.g. SHA-512) and compute the MAC over the concatenation of the IV and the encrypted data (you could skip the IV only if you generate it from the passphrase too, but it is safer to include it in the MAC input). Upon decryption, verify the MAC first, then proceed to decryption only if the MAC matches.
You might want to include some provision for algorithm agility, i.e. adding in the header a byte value which identifies the combination of algorithms you use (bcrypt, SHA-256, AES+CBC, HMAC/SHA-256). This would allow you to switch later on to another set of algorithms without breaking code compatibility with existing files. In that case, don't forget to add this "algorithm identifier byte" to the input for the MAC.
As a shotgun approach, you could try deleting everything in the /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages and then attempting to update pip. You can also create a new, isolated virtual environment, which you should always use over the system environment, with python3 -m venv .venv (or whatever you prefer for its name and location other than .venv), activate it, and install the package you want in that (without using sudo, of course).
I usually run yay -Syu to upgrade my arch installation. However, for the past week, I have been getting an error where a number of preexisting files under python site-packages exist and the upgrade fails due to file conflicts. Here is the complete log. How do I correct this problem?
ceph-libs is probably the package that yay was going to build. Do you need it or since it was dropped to AUR can you remove it and any packages depending on it?
Even if you remove ceph-libs you want to clean up the untracked files in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ and stop the activity that is creating them.
Yes and no - but this confusion is one of many reasons why yay is not well suited for these tasks. The aur package that ultimately leads to the errors is ceph-libs. If you do not need that package, you could remove it - though that'd actually only brush the issue under the rug. Yay is attempting to update ceph-libs, and in order to do so it needs to install dependencies including several python packages which it does behind the scenes by calling pacman to install these from the main repos. And several of these python packages result in the conflicting files warnings.
bcrypt is a Python module which provides a password hashing method based onthe Blowfish password hashing algorithm, as described in"A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Niels Provos and David Mazieres: package provides the bcrypt Python module for Python 3.x. Other Packages Related to python3-bcrypt
Let's install it by running apt install python3-bcrypt, assuming you arerunning a debian-like distribution. Other alternatives exist to generate hashedpasswords; for testing you can also use bcrypt generators on theweb.
At Auth0, the integrity and security of our data are one of our highest priorities. We use the industry-grade and battle-tested bcrypt algorithm to securely hash and salt passwords. bcrypt allows building a password security platform that can evolve alongside hardware technology to guard against the threats that the future may bring, such as attackers having the computing power to crack passwords twice as fast. Let's learn about the design and specifications that make bcrypt a cryptographic security standard.
This attack vector was well understood by cryptographers in the 90s and an algorithm by the name of bcrypt that met these design specifications was presented in 1999 at USENIX. Let's learn how bcrypt allows us to create strong password storage systems.
The Blowfish cipher is a fast block cipher except when changing keys>), the parameters that establish the functional output of a cryptographic algorithm: each new key requires the pre-processing equivalent to encrypting about 4 kilobytes of text>), which is considered very slow compared to other block ciphers. This slow key changing is beneficial to password hashing methods such as bcrypt since the extra computational demand helps protect against dictionary and brute force attacks by slowing down the attack.
As shown in "Blowfish in practice">), bcrypt is able to mitigate those kinds of attacks by combining the expensive key setup phase of Blowfish with a variable number of iterations to increase the workload and duration of hash calculations. The largest benefit of bcrypt is that, over time, the iteration count can be increased to make it slower allowing bcrypt to scale with computing power. We can dimish any benefits attackers may get from faster hardware by increasing the number of iterations to make bcrypt slower.
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