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Allow to specify the number of rounds for SHA-* hashing in crypt #75883

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serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Oct 5, 2017 · 5 comments
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Allow to specify the number of rounds for SHA-* hashing in crypt #75883

serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Oct 5, 2017 · 5 comments
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BPO 31702
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  • bpo-31702: Allow to specify rounds for SHA-2 hashing in crypt.mksalt(). #4110
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    Blowfish salt should contain the binary logarithm of the number of rounds (from 4 to 31) (see bpo-31664). SHA-* salt can contain an explicit number of rounds in the form '$rounds={value}$'. It is bound to the range from 1000 to 999999999, the default is 5000.

    I propose to allow to specify the number of rounds in generated salt for SHA-* methods as well as for Blowfish. For unifying interface we can specify the number of rounds instead of its logarithm for Blowfish, and calculate the logarithm internally.

    The question is what to do with the value that is not a power of two for Blowfish. Should we raise an error or silently replace it with the upper power of two?

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    gpshead commented Oct 24, 2017

    I'd raise a ValueError in that case.

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    What to do with values outside of the valid range (2**4 to 2**31 for Blowfish, 1000 to 999999999 for SHA*). Raise ValueError, OverflowError, or bound it, or just generate an invalid salt and allow crypt() to handle it?

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    gpshead commented Oct 25, 2017

    I'd stick with ValueError in that case as well. if someone dislikes the
    valueerrors because they _want_ to use an invalid one, they can file a bug
    and we'll reconsider only if they have a meaningful use case.

    On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:36 AM Serhiy Storchaka <report@bugs.python.org>
    wrote:

    Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython@gmail.com> added the comment:

    What to do with values outside of the valid range (2**4 to 2**31 for
    Blowfish, 1000 to 999999999 for SHA*). Raise ValueError, OverflowError, or
    bound it, or just generate an invalid salt and allow crypt() to handle it?

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    New changeset cede8c9 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'master':
    bpo-31702: Allow to specify rounds for SHA-2 hashing in crypt.mksalt(). (bpo-4110)
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