django-bcrypt

You should be using bcrypt

.. _You should be using bcrypt: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

django-bcrypt makes it easy to use bcrypt to hash passwords with Django.

• Mercurial: http://bitbucket.org/dwaiter/django-bcrypt/
• Git: http://github.com/dwaiter/django-bcrypt/
• Documentation: http://django-bcrypt.rtfd.org/
• Issues: http://bitbucket.org/dwaiter/django-bcrypt/issues?status=new&status=open

Installation and Usage

Install the package with

pip

Mercurial

git

pip install -e hg+http://bitbucket.org/dwaiter/django-bcrypt#egg=django-bcrypt

or ...
pip install -e git://github.com/dwaiter/django-bcrypt.git#egg=django-bcrypt

.. _pip: http://pip.openplans.org/ .. _Mercurial: http://hg-scm.org/ .. _git: http://git-scm.com/

Add

django_bcrypt

INSTALLED_APPS

That's it.

Any new passwords set will be hashed with bcrypt. Old passwords will still work fine.

Configuration

You can configure how django-bcrypt behaves with a few settings in your

settings.py

BCRYPT_ENABLED

Enables bcrypt hashing when

User.set_password()

Default:

True

BCRYPT_ENABLED_UNDER_TEST

Enables bcrypt hashing when running inside Django TestCases.

Default:

False

BCRYPT_ROUNDS

Number of rounds to use for bcrypt hashing. Increase this as computers get faster.

You can change the number of rounds without breaking already-hashed passwords. New passwords will use the new number of rounds, and old ones will use the old number.

Default:

12

BCRYPT_MIGRATE

Enables bcrypt password migration on a

check_password()

The hash is also migrated when

BCRYPT_ROUNDS

Default:

False

Acknowledgements

This is pretty much a packaged-up version of

this blog post

It also depends on the

py-bcrypt

.. _this blog post: http://kfalck.net/2010/12/27/blogi-linodessa-ja-bcrypt-kaytossa

.. _py-bcrypt: http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/