New submission from Sean Reifschneider <j...@tummy.com>:
Over the years I've written the same code over and over to create a random salt
string of 2 characters. Worse, the Modular Crypt Format is difficult to find
documentation on, so creating stronger hashed passwords is difficult to get
right.
To that end, I'm proposing the addition of a "mksalt()" method which will
generate a salt, and several METHOD_* values to select which hashing method to
use.
I also figure there will need to be a "methods()" call that figures out what
methods are available in the library crypt() and return a list of the available
ones.
If we have a way to generate a salt, then I figure we could drop the salt
argument of crypt.crypt(), and if not specified to generate one. So to hash a
password you could do: "crypt.crypt('password')".
I figure that the best way to accomplish this is to implement this all in
Python and move the existing C crypt module to _crypt.
A patch accomplishing this is attached. Please review.
Attached is a patch to accomplish this.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: python-underscore_crypt.patch
keywords: easy, needs review, patch
messages: 126393
nosy: jafo
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20422/python-underscore_crypt.patch
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