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Hashing in SHA512 using a salt? - Python

- by RadiantHex

Hi folks, I have been looking through ths hashlib documentation but haven't found anything talking about using salt when hashing data. Help would be great.

Help needed in grokking password hashes and salts

I've read a number of SO questions on this topic, but grokking the applied practice of storing a salted hash of a password eludes me. Let's start with some ground rules: a password, "foobar12" (we are not discussing the strength of the password). a language, Java 1.6 for this discussion a database, postgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Several options are available to storing the password, but I want to think about one (1): Store the password hashed with random salt in the DB, one column Found on SO and elsewhere is the automatic fail of plaintext, MD5/SHA1, and dual-columns. The latter have pros and cons MD5/SHA1 is simple. MessageDigest in Java provides MD5, SHA1 (through SHA512 in modern implementations, certainly 1.6). Additionally, most RDBMSs listed provide methods for MD5 encryption functions on inserts, updates, etc. The problems become evident once one groks "rainbow tables" and MD5 collisions (and I've grokked these concepts). Dual-column solutions rest on the idea that the salt does not need to be secret (grok it). However, a second column introduces a complexity that might not be a luxury if you have a legacy system with one (1) column for the password and the cost of updating the table and the code could be too high. But it is storing the password hashed with a random salt in single DB column that I need to understand better, with practical application. I like this solution for a couple of reasons: a salt is expected and considers legacy boundaries. Here's where I get lost: if the salt is random and hashed with the password, how can the system ever match the password? I have theory on this, and as I type I might be grokking the concept: Given a random salt of 128 bytes and a password of 8 bytes ('foobar12'), it could be programmatically possible to remove the part of the hash that was the salt, by hashing a random 128 byte salt and getting the substring of the original hash that is the hashed password. Then re hashing to match using the hash algorithm...??? So... any takers on helping. :) Am I close?

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Do I need to Salt and Hash a randomly generated token?

- by wag2639

I'm using Adam Griffiths's Authentication Library for CodeIgniter and I'm tweaking the usermodel. I came across a generate function that he uses to generate tokens. His preferred approach is to reference a value from random.org but I considered that superfluous. I'm using his fall back approach of randomly generating a 20 character long string: $length = 20; $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'; $token = ''; for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) { $token .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters)-1)]; } He then hashes this token using a salt (I'm combing code from different functions) sha1($this->CI->config->item('encryption_key').$str); I was wondering if theres any reason to to run the token through the salted hash? I've read that simply randomly generating strings was a naive way of making random passwords but is the sh1 hash and salt necessary? Note: I got my encryption_key from https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm (63 random alpha-numeric)

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Salt and hash a password in .NET

- by Jon Canning

I endeavoured to follow the CrackStation rules: Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right public class SaltedHash { public string Hash { get; private set; } public string Salt { get; private set; } public SaltedHash(string password) { var saltBytes = new byte[32]; new RNGCryptoServiceProvider().GetNonZeroBytes(saltBytes); Salt = ConvertToBase64String(saltBytes); var passwordAndSaltBytes = Concat(password, saltBytes); Hash = ComputeHash(passwordAndSaltBytes); } static string ConvertToBase64String(byte[] bytes) { return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes); } static string ComputeHash(byte[] bytes) { return ConvertToBase64String(SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(bytes)); } static byte[] Concat(string password, byte[] saltBytes) { var passwordBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password); return passwordBytes.Concat(saltBytes).ToArray(); } public static bool Verify(string salt, string hash, string password) { var saltBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(salt); var passwordAndSaltBytes = Concat(password, saltBytes); var hashAttempt = ComputeHash(passwordAndSaltBytes); return hash == hashAttempt; } }

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slowAES encryption and java descryption

- by amnon

Hi , I've tried to implement the same steps as discussed in AES .NET but with no success , i can't seem to get java and slowAes to play toghter ... attached is my code i'm sorry i can't add more this is my first time trying to deal with encryption would appreciate any help private static final String ALGORITHM = "AES"; private static final byte[] keyValue = getKeyBytes("12345678901234567890123456789012"); private static final byte[] INIT_VECTOR = new byte[16]; private static IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(INIT_VECTOR); public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String encoded = encrypt("watson?"); System.out.println(encoded); } private static Key generateKey() throws Exception { Key key = new SecretKeySpec(keyValue, ALGORITHM); // SecretKeyFactory keyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(ALGORITHM); // key = keyFactory.generateSecret(new DESKeySpec(keyValue)); return key; } private static byte[] getKeyBytes(String key) { byte[] hash = DigestUtils.sha(key); byte[] saltedHash = new byte[16]; System.arraycopy(hash, 0, saltedHash, 0, 16); return saltedHash; } public static String encrypt(String valueToEnc) throws Exception { Key key = generateKey(); Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding"); c.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key,ivSpec); byte[] encValue = c.doFinal(valueToEnc.getBytes()); String encryptedValue = new BASE64Encoder().encode(encValue); return encryptedValue; } public static String decrypt(String encryptedValue) throws Exception { Key key = generateKey(); Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance(ALGORITHM); c.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key); byte[] decordedValue = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(encryptedValue); byte[] decValue = c.doFinal(decordedValue); String decryptedValue = new String(decValue); return decryptedValue; } the bytes returned are different thanks in advance .

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BasicAuthProvider in ServiceStack

- by Per

I've got an issue with the BasicAuthProvider in ServiceStack. POST-ing to the CredentialsAuthProvider (/auth/credentials) is working fine. The problem is that when GET-ing (in Chrome): http://foo:pwd@localhost:81/tag/string/list the following is the result Handler for Request not found: Request.HttpMethod: GET Request.HttpMethod: GET Request.PathInfo: /login Request.QueryString: System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection Request.RawUrl: /login?redirect=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a81%2ftag%2fstring%2flist which tells me that it redirected me to /login instead of serving the /tag/... request. Here's the entire code for my AppHost: public class AppHost : AppHostHttpListenerBase, IMessageSubscriber { private ITagProvider myTagProvider; private IMessageSender mySender; private const string UserName = "foo"; private const string Password = "pwd"; public AppHost( TagConfig config, IMessageSender sender ) : base( "BM App Host", typeof( AppHost ).Assembly ) { myTagProvider = new TagProvider( config ); mySender = sender; } public class CustomUserSession : AuthUserSession { public override void OnAuthenticated( IServiceBase authService, IAuthSession session, IOAuthTokens tokens, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string> authInfo ) { authService.RequestContext.Get<IHttpRequest>().SaveSession( session ); } } public override void Configure( Funq.Container container ) { Plugins.Add( new MetadataFeature() ); container.Register<BeyondMeasure.WebAPI.Services.Tags.ITagProvider>( myTagProvider ); container.Register<IMessageSender>( mySender ); Plugins.Add( new AuthFeature( () => new CustomUserSession(), new AuthProvider[] { new CredentialsAuthProvider(), //HTML Form post of UserName/Password credentials new BasicAuthProvider(), //Sign-in with Basic Auth } ) ); container.Register<ICacheClient>( new MemoryCacheClient() ); var userRep = new InMemoryAuthRepository(); container.Register<IUserAuthRepository>( userRep ); string hash; string salt; new SaltedHash().GetHashAndSaltString( Password, out hash, out salt ); // Create test user userRep.CreateUserAuth( new UserAuth { Id = 1, DisplayName = "DisplayName", Email = "[email protected]", UserName = UserName, FirstName = "FirstName", LastName = "LastName", PasswordHash = hash, Salt = salt, }, Password ); } } Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong with either the SS configuration or how I am calling the service, i.e. why does it not accept the supplied user/pwd? Update1: Request/Response captured in Fiddler2when only BasicAuthProvider is used. No Auth header sent in the request, but also no Auth header in the response. GET /tag/string/AAA HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:81 Connection: keep-alive User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,sv;q=0.6 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Cookie: ss-pid=Hu2zuD/T8USgvC8FinMC9Q==; X-UAId=1; ss-id=1HTqSQI9IUqRAGxM8vKlPA== HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: /login?redirect=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a81%2ftag%2fstring%2fAAA Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 X-Powered-By: ServiceStack/3,926 Win32NT/.NET Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:41:51 GMT Content-Length: 0 Update2 Request/Response with HtmlRedirect = null . SS now answers with the Auth header, which Chrome then issues a second request for and authentication succeeds GET http://localhost:81/tag/string/Abc HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:81 Connection: keep-alive User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,sv;q=0.6 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Cookie: ss-pid=Hu2zuD/T8USgvC8FinMC9Q==; X-UAId=1; ss-id=1HTqSQI9IUqRAGxM8vKlPA== HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Transfer-Encoding: chunked Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 X-Powered-By: ServiceStack/3,926 Win32NT/.NET WWW-Authenticate: basic realm="/auth/basic" Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:49:19 GMT 0 GET http://localhost:81/tag/string/Abc HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:81 Connection: keep-alive Authorization: Basic Zm9vOnB3ZA== User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,sv;q=0.6 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Cookie: ss-pid=Hu2zuD/T8USgvC8FinMC9Q==; X-UAId=1; ss-id=1HTqSQI9IUqRAGxM8vKlPA==

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