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passlib for go
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[Python's passlib](https://pythonhosted.org/passlib/) is quite an amazing
library. I'm not sure there's a password library in existence with more thought
put into it, or with more support for obscure password formats.
This is a skeleton of a port of passlib to Go. It dogmatically adopts the
modular crypt format, which [passlib has excellent documentation for](https://pythonhosted.org/passlib/modular_crypt_format.html#modular-crypt-format).
Currently, it supports sha256-crypt, sha512-crypt, scrypt-sha256, bcrypt and
passlib's bcrypt-sha256 variant. By default, it will hash using scrypt-sha256
and verify existing hashes using any of these schemes.
Example Usage
-------------
There's a default context for ease of use. Most people need only concern
themselves with the functions `Hash` and `Verify`:
```go
// Hash a plaintext, UTF-8 password.
func Hash(password string) (hash string, err error)
// Verifies a plaintext, UTF-8 password using a previously derived hash.
// Returns non-nil err if verification fails.
//
// Also returns an upgraded password hash if the hash provided is
// deprecated.
func Verify(password, hash string) (newHash string, err error)
```
Here's a rough skeleton of typical usage.
```go
import "gopkg.in/hlandau/passlib.v1"
func RegisterUser() {
(...)
password := get a (UTF-8, plaintext) password from somewhere
hash, err := passlib.Hash(password)
if err != nil {
// couldn't hash password for some reason
return
}
(store hash in database, etc.)
}
func CheckPassword() bool {
password := get the password the user entered
hash := the hash you stored from the call to Hash()
newHash, err := passlib.Verify(password, hash)
if err != nil {
// incorrect password, malformed hash, etc.
// either way, reject
return false
}
// The context has decided, as per its policy, that
// the hash which was used to validate the password
// should be changed. It has upgraded the hash using
// the verified password.
if newHash != "" {
(store newHash in database, replacing old hash)
}
return true
}
```
scrypt Modular Crypt Format
---------------------------
Since scrypt does not have a pre-existing modular crypt format standard, I made one. It's as follows:
$s2$N$r$p$salt$hash
...where `N`, `r` and `p` are the respective difficulty parameters to scrypt as positive decimal integers without leading zeroes, and `salt` and `hash` are base64-encoded binary strings. Note that the RFC 4648 base64 encoding is used (not the one used by sha256-crypt and sha512-crypt).
TODO
----
- PBKDF2
Licence
-------
passlib is partially derived from Python's passlib and so maintains its BSD license.
© 2008-2012 Assurance Technologies LLC. (Python passlib) BSD License
© 2014 Hugo Landau <hlandau@devever.net> BSD License