Rather than committing this directly I created the following pull request:

  
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/pull-request/165/password-security-use-pbkdf2-scheme-with

It would be great if a couple of people could sign-off on it before
merging. I don't think I'm doing anything stupid, but a sanity check
is appreciated.

--
James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, James Taylor <ja...@jamestaylor.org> wrote:
> Vipin, I think the main problem here is that you cannot treat PBKDF2
> as a hash in this way. Every time you hash the same password you get a
> different result because you are generating a new random salt.
> Instead, you need to decode the in database representation to extract
> the salt and then do a comparison on the hashed part.
>
> I have this working in a backward compatible way, and I think it is a
> good idea so I will be committing it to central shortly.
>
> --
> James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Vipin TS <vipin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks James, I have updated the password of one user in galaxy_user table
>> with the new algorithm,
>> I also adjusted the function "new_secure_hash" in
>> /lib/galaxy/util/hash_util.py in such a way that it returns
>> the new hash instead of sha1. Now I tried to login, it fails to get the
>> account, I think there is something going
>> wrong in the password hash comparison. Can you please assit here.
>>
>> +++ b/lib/galaxy/util/hash_util.py      Thu May 02 14:33:07 2013 -0400
>> @@ -25,13 +25,60 @@
>>      Returns either a sha1 hash object (if called with no arguments), or a
>>      hexdigest of the sha1 hash of the argument `text_type`.
>>      """
>> +    import hashlib
>> +    from os import urandom
>> +    from base64 import b64encode, b64decode
>> +    from itertools import izip
>> +    from pbkdf2 import pbkdf2_bin
>> +
>> +    SALT_LENGTH = 12
>> +    KEY_LENGTH = 24
>> +    HASH_FUNCTION = 'sha256'
>> +    COST_FACTOR = 10000
>> +
>>      if text_type:
>> +        #return sha1( text_type ).hexdigest()
>> +
>> +        sec_hash_1 = sha1( text_type ).hexdigest()
>> +
>> +        if isinstance(sec_hash_1, unicode):
>> +            sec_hash_1 = sec_hash_1.encode('utf-8')
>> +        salt = b64encode(urandom(SALT_LENGTH))
>> +
>> +        return 'PBKDF2${0}${1}${2}${3}'.format(
>> +            HASH_FUNCTION,
>> +            COST_FACTOR,
>> +            salt,
>> +            b64encode(pbkdf2_bin(sec_hash_1, salt, COST_FACTOR, KEY_LENGTH,
>> getattr(hashlib, HASH_FUNCTION))))
>>
>>
>> thanks, Vipin
>>
>>
>>> That should be the only place, it is called from the some methods of
>>> the User model object. So you could modify it to always hash new
>>> passwords in a different way, but check old passwords with sha1 first,
>>> then something else.
>>>
>>> Although it might be nice to move the functionality into
>>> security.validate_user_input since it is really specific to user
>>> passwords, especially with those changes.
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to see this go into main with sha256 or something
>>> similar. Also, we could consider adding a random per-user salt field
>>> if you are really concerned about this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Vipin TS <vipin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello dev-team,
>>> > I would like to add the different type of password encryption to the
>>> > users
>>> > in my galaxy instance. I started working with the current password
>>> > encoding
>>> > script:
>>> > /home/apps/galaxy-dist/lib/galaxy/util/hash_util.py
>>> >
>>> > I will keep the current sha1 and add another layer of encryption to the
>>> > sha1
>>> > hash, otherwise I need to force all my users to change the password and
>>> > follow the new hashing method.
>>> >
>>> > Can anyone please point me any other place/script which I missed
>>> > regarding
>>> > the encryption/decryption of user authentication.
>>> >
>>> > thanks in advance,
>>> > --/Vipin
>>> >
>>> >
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