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So, there is no reason to store a plaintext password with such an easy solution as bcrypt available. It doesn't take much to use it, and it is available almost everywhere. While there are other options, some more sophisticated and some less, bcrypt strikes a nice balance currently of good defaults out of the box and a solid track record out in the wild. Variants of this are available in almost every language. If it matches, then we'll get good password. checkpw reads the salt, hashes the password, and compares it to the previously computed hash. This would have been looked up via something like a username or email key from the database (this isn't shown) and supplied to checkpw. Then it takes the previously computed and stored hashed_passwd from the database. The above takes the inbound password from the user to be checked. Using python to check if a submitted password is good is simple too: if bcrypt.checkpw(passwd, hashed_passwd): This is what is actually compared after all of the computations. The remaining 32 characters are the actual hash of the original password and the salt through the number of rounds:

Each dictionary would have to be computed for just this salt combined with each word in the dictionary and then computed. You can set it to more by passing the number of rounds to the bcrypt.gensalt(14) which would have been a factor of 2 more than the default.ДЄre a salt which helps prevent pre-computed dictionary attacks. This is the part that allows for the slowness to be encoded in the actual output which gives some cause for longevity as compute power increases. The $12$ encodes the fact that this password was hashed with 12 rounds which are logarithmic. The $2b says this is a bcrypt hash ( $2a does too). $2b$12$lVpvD4gOZZZ4IJUr94fBeeZbKofJBNcuCeq0ylhJxLJC2JjuEoive Hashed_passwd = bcrypt.hashpw(passwd, bcrypt.gensalt()) The natural place to hash a password is in the application tier. Yet the good guys probably won't notice on a single attempt when they try to log in. However, if the bad guy is slowed down per try that is amplified when millions and millions of attempts are made, often to the point of thwarting the attack. If there is a match, the password has been cracked. This means that an attacker will try many, many candidate passwords by hashing them just like the good guys do. These days most password attacks are some variant of a brute force dictionary attack. While this slowness sounds paradoxical when it comes to password hashing it isn't because both the good guys and the bad are slowed down. The Simplest Answer: bcryptД«crypt is an intentionally slow hashing function. This is what can happen if you don't do something about this and ignore the minimum steps. Which means it ended up looking something like this: Suffice it to say this is bad (and in their defense, it changed right after this apparently and it was some years ago). The thing of real note is the SHA1 storage of passwords without a salt. If one looks even closer there is more to be concerned about: This should spook anyone entrusted with the storage of usernames and passwords no matter how small the application. Here is are the top ten sites with exposed email/password combinations per : If You Aren't Convinced Yet This Should Scare You Sometimes those prototypes become something more. Even if what you are building is just a prototype that you know you will throw away, there isn't any reason to store exposed passwords in a database. The amount of effort required to protect passwords with some form of encryption is small compared to the risks. This process starts but doesn't end, by not storing plain text passwords.

So when a user does create a password with you, you have to assume the worst, that that password is used in a hundred different places and that you do not want to be the service provider that allowed someone to get hold of that password. They not only protect access to the services you may offer but also because users have a bad tendency to reuse them, they may be the keys to a much wider domain of resources, accounts, and tangible assets.

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