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lib/pbkdf2.ex
defmodule Pbkdf2 do
@moduledoc """
Elixir wrapper for the Pbkdf2 password hashing function.
Most applications will just need to use the `add_hash/2` and `check_pass/3`
convenience functions in this module.
For a lower-level API, see Pbkdf2.Base.
## Configuration
The following parameter can be set in the config file:
* rounds - computational cost
* the number of rounds
* 160_000 is the default
If you are hashing passwords in your tests, it can be useful to add
the following to the `config/test.exs` file:
config :pbkdf2_elixir,
rounds: 1
NB. do not use this value in production.
## Pbkdf2
Pbkdf2 is a password-based key derivation function
that uses a password, a variable-length salt and an iteration
count and applies a pseudorandom function to these to
produce a key.
The original implementation used SHA-1 as the pseudorandom function,
but this version uses HMAC-SHA-512, the default, or HMAC-SHA-256.
## Warning
It is recommended that you set a maximum length for the password
when using Pbkdf2. This maximum length should not prevent valid users from setting
long passwords. It is instead needed to combat denial-of-service attacks.
As an example, Django sets the maximum length to 4096 bytes.
For more information, see [this link](https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/).
"""
use Comeonin
alias Pbkdf2.Base
@doc """
Generate a random salt.
The minimum length of the salt is 8 bytes and the maximum length is
1024. The default length for the salt is 16 bytes. We do not recommend
using a salt shorter than the default.
"""
def gen_salt(salt_length \\ 16)
def gen_salt(salt_length) when salt_length in 8..1024 do
:crypto.strong_rand_bytes(salt_length)
end
def gen_salt(_) do
raise ArgumentError, """
The salt is the wrong length. It should be between 8 and 1024 bytes long.
"""
end
@doc """
Hashes a password with a randomly generated salt.
## Options
In addition to the `:salt_len` option shown below, this function also takes
options that are then passed on to the `hash_password` function in the
`Pbkdf2.Base` module.
See the documentation for `Pbkdf2.Base.hash_password/3` for further details.
* `:salt_len` - the length of the random salt
* the default is 16 (the minimum is 8) bytes
## Examples
The following examples show how to hash a password with a randomly-generated
salt and then verify a password:
iex> hash = Pbkdf2.hash_pwd_salt("password")
...> Pbkdf2.verify_pass("password", hash)
true
iex> hash = Pbkdf2.hash_pwd_salt("password")
...> Pbkdf2.verify_pass("incorrect", hash)
false
"""
@impl true
def hash_pwd_salt(password, opts \\ []) do
Base.hash_password(password, Keyword.get(opts, :salt_len, 16) |> gen_salt, opts)
end
@doc """
Verifies a password by hashing the password and comparing the hashed value
with a stored hash.
See the documentation for `hash_pwd_salt/2` for examples of using this function.
"""
@impl true
def verify_pass(password, stored_hash) do
[alg, rounds, salt, hash] = String.split(stored_hash, "$", trim: true)
digest = if alg =~ "sha512", do: :sha512, else: :sha256
Base.verify_pass(password, hash, salt, digest, rounds, output(stored_hash))
end
defp output("$pbkdf2" <> _), do: :modular
defp output("pbkdf2" <> _), do: :django
end