* @since 2.0 */ class PasswordHelper { /** * Generate a secure hash from a password and a random salt. * * Uses the PHP [crypt()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php) built-in function * with the Blowfish hash option. * * @param string $password The password to be hashed. * @param integer $cost Cost parameter used by the Blowfish hash algorithm. * The higher the value of cost, * the longer it takes to generate the hash and to verify a password against it. Higher cost * therefore slows down a brute-force attack. For best protection against brute for attacks, * set it to the highest value that is tolerable on production servers. The time taken to * compute the hash doubles for every increment by one of $cost. So, for example, if the * hash takes 1 second to compute when $cost is 14 then then the compute time varies as * 2^($cost - 14) seconds. * @throws Exception on bad password parameter or cost parameter * @return string The password hash string, ASCII and not longer than 64 characters. */ public static function hashPassword($password, $cost = 13) { $salt = static::generateSalt($cost); $hash = crypt($password, $salt); if (!is_string($hash) || strlen($hash) < 32) { throw new Exception('Unknown error occurred while generating hash.'); } return $hash; } /** * Verifies a password against a hash. * @param string $password The password to verify. * @param string $hash The hash to verify the password against. * @return boolean whether the password is correct. * @throws InvalidParamException on bad password or hash parameters or if crypt() with Blowfish hash is not available. */ public static function verifyPassword($password, $hash) { if (!is_string($password) || $password === '') { throw new InvalidParamException('Password must be a string and cannot be empty.'); } if (!preg_match('/^\$2[axy]\$(\d\d)\$[\./0-9A-Za-z]{22}/', $hash, $matches) || $matches[1] < 4 || $matches[1] > 30) { throw new InvalidParamException('Hash is invalid.'); } $test = crypt($password, $hash); $n = strlen($test); if (strlen($test) < 32 || $n !== strlen($hash)) { return false; } // Use a for-loop to compare two strings to prevent timing attacks. See: // http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/13512 $check = 0; for ($i = 0; $i < $n; ++$i) { $check |= (ord($test[$i]) ^ ord($hash[$i])); } return $check === 0; } /** * Generates a salt that can be used to generate a password hash. * * The PHP [crypt()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php) built-in function * requires, for the Blowfish hash algorithm, a salt string in a specific format: * "$2a$", "$2x$" or "$2y$", a two digit cost parameter, "$", and 22 characters * from the alphabet "./0-9A-Za-z". * * @param integer $cost the cost parameter * @return string the random salt value. * @throws InvalidParamException if the cost parameter is not between 4 and 30 */ protected static function generateSalt($cost = 13) { $cost = (int)$cost; if ($cost < 4 || $cost > 30) { throw new InvalidParamException('Cost must be between 4 and 31.'); } // Get 20 * 8bits of pseudo-random entropy from mt_rand(). $rand = ''; for ($i = 0; $i < 20; ++$i) { $rand .= chr(mt_rand(0, 255)); } // Add the microtime for a little more entropy. $rand .= microtime(); // Mix the bits cryptographically into a 20-byte binary string. $rand = sha1($rand, true); // Form the prefix that specifies Blowfish algorithm and cost parameter. $salt = sprintf("$2y$%02d$", $cost); // Append the random salt data in the required base64 format. $salt .= str_replace('+', '.', substr(base64_encode($rand), 0, 22)); return $salt; } }