If you're going to use C anyway, why not bind bcrypt?
mark
On 07/02/2011, at 2:13 PM, Peter Scott wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If you need to store and verify passwords, the usual advice is to use bcrypt.
> It neatly handles all the security issues, with a simple API. But Haskell
> doesn't have bcrypt bindings, so people are tempted to roll their own
> password storage methods, and perhaps get it wrong. I decided to fix that.
> The pwstore library handles all the details of password storage for you, in a
> way that should be so easy to use that there's no reason not to use it.
>
> WHAT IT DOES
>
> You hash and salt passwords with one function, and verify user input against
> these password hashes with another function. For more information, see the
> API docs:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pwstore-fast/1.0/doc/html/Crypto-PasswordStore.html
>
>
> HOW IT WORKS
>
> The basic algorithm is this:
>
> * Combine the user's password with a randomly-generated salt.
>
> * Hash this slowly. By iterating SHA-256 a few thousand times, we make
> brute-force guessing a lot less practical.
>
> * Store this has along with the salt.
>
> This scheme is essentially an implementation of the PBKDF1 key derivation
> function (as specified in RFC 2898) with some convenience code around it to
> make it easy to use and really hard to mess up.
>
>
> WHERE TO GET IT
>
> There are two packages on Hackage, which you can get with cabal-install:
>
> 1. pwstore-fast is the preferred version.
>
> 2. pwstore-purehaskell has the same API, but only pure Haskell dependencies.
> It's usable, but about 25 times slower than pwstore-fast.
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-fast
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pwstore-purehaskell
>
> The source code is on GitHub:
>
> https://github.com/PeterScott/pwstore/
>
> Any comments, questions, or patches are welcome.
>
> -Peter
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