While bcrypt remains an acceptable choice for password storage, depending on your specific use case you may also want to consider using scrypt (either via standard library or cryptography) or argon2id via argon2_cffi.
The bcrypt algorithm only handles passwords up to 72 characters, any charactersbeyond that are ignored. To work around this, a common approach is to hash apassword with a cryptographic hash (such as sha256) and then base64encode it to prevent NULL byte problems before hashing the result withbcrypt:
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bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazires, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999.[1] Besides incorporating a salt to protect against rainbow table attacks, bcrypt is an adaptive function: over time, the iteration count can be increased to make it slower, so it remains resistant to brute-force search attacks even with increasing computation power.
The bcrypt function is the default password hash algorithm for OpenBSD,[2][non-primary source needed] and was the default for some Linux distributions such as SUSE Linux.[3][failed verification]
The input to the bcrypt function is the password string (up to 72 bytes), a numeric cost, and a 16-byte (128-bit) salt value. The salt is typically a random value. The bcrypt function uses these inputs to compute a 24-byte (192-bit) hash. The final output of the bcrypt function is a string of the form:
In June 2011, a bug was discovered in crypt_blowfish, a PHP implementation of bcrypt. It was mis-handling characters with the 8th bit set.[12] They suggested that system administrators update their existing password database, replacing $2a$ with $2x$, to indicate that those hashes are bad (and need to use the old broken algorithm). They also suggested the idea of having crypt_blowfish emit $2y$ for hashes generated by the fixed algorithm.
A bug was discovered in the OpenBSD implementation of bcrypt. It was using an unsigned 8-bit value to hold the length of the password.[11][13][14] For passwords longer than 255 bytes, instead of being truncated at 72 bytes the password would be truncated at the lesser of 72 or the length modulo 256. For example, a 260 byte password would be truncated at 4 bytes rather than truncated at 72 bytes.
The bcrypt function below encrypts the text "OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt" 64 times using Blowfish. In bcrypt the usual Blowfish key setup function is replaced with an expensive key setup (EksBlowfishSetup) function:
The mathematical algorithm itself requires initialization with 18 32-bit subkeys (equivalent to 72 octets/bytes). The original specification of bcrypt does not mandate any one particular method for mapping text-based passwords from userland into numeric values for the algorithm. One brief comment in the text mentions, but does not mandate, the possibility of simply using the ASCII encoded value of a character string: "Finally, the key argument is a secret encryption key, which can be a user-chosen password of up to 56 bytes (including a terminating zero byte when the key is an ASCII string)."[1]
It is important to note that bcrypt is not a key derivation function (KDF). For example, bcrypt cannot be used to derive a 512-bit key from a password. At the same time, algorithms like pbkdf2, scrypt, and argon2 are password-based key derivation functions - where the output is then used for the purpose of password hashing rather than just key derivation.
node-gyp only works with stable/released versions of node. Since the bcrypt module uses node-gyp to build and install, you'll need a stable version of node to use bcrypt. If you do not, you'll likely see an error that starts with:
Per bcrypt implementation, only the first 72 bytes of a string are used. Any extra bytes are ignored when matching passwords. Note that this is not the first 72 characters. It is possible for a string to contain less than 72 characters, while taking up more than 72 bytes (e.g. a UTF-8 encoded string containing emojis).
This library supports $2a$ and $2b$ prefix bcrypt hashes. $2x$ and $2y$ hashes are specific to bcrypt implementation developed for John the Ripper. In theory, they should be compatible with $2b$ prefix.
bcrypt uses whatever Promise implementation is available in global.Promise. NodeJS >= 0.12 has a native Promise implementation built in. However, this should work in any Promises/A+ compliant implementation.
We recommend using async API if you use bcrypt on a server. Bcrypt hashing is CPU intensive which will cause the sync APIs to block the event loop and prevent your application from servicing any inbound requests or events. The async version uses a thread pool which does not block the main event loop.
At Auth0, the integrity and security of our data are one of our highest priorities. We use the industry-grade and battle-tested bcrypt algorithm to securely hash and salt passwords. bcrypt allows building a password security platform that can evolve alongside hardware technology to guard against the threats that the future may bring, such as attackers having the computing power to crack passwords twice as fast. Let's learn about the design and specifications that make bcrypt a cryptographic security standard.
This attack vector was well understood by cryptographers in the 90s and an algorithm by the name of bcrypt that met these design specifications was presented in 1999 at USENIX. Let's learn how bcrypt allows us to create strong password storage systems.
The Blowfish cipher is a fast block cipher except when changing keys>), the parameters that establish the functional output of a cryptographic algorithm: each new key requires the pre-processing equivalent to encrypting about 4 kilobytes of text>), which is considered very slow compared to other block ciphers. This slow key changing is beneficial to password hashing methods such as bcrypt since the extra computational demand helps protect against dictionary and brute force attacks by slowing down the attack.
As shown in "Blowfish in practice">), bcrypt is able to mitigate those kinds of attacks by combining the expensive key setup phase of Blowfish with a variable number of iterations to increase the workload and duration of hash calculations. The largest benefit of bcrypt is that, over time, the iteration count can be increased to make it slower allowing bcrypt to scale with computing power. We can dimish any benefits attackers may get from faster hardware by increasing the number of iterations to make bcrypt slower.
Provos and Mazires, the designers of bcrypt, used the expensive key setup phase of the Blowfish cipher to develop a new key setup algorithm for Blowfish named "eksblowfish", which stands for "expensive key schedule Blowfish."
What's "key setup"? According to Ian Howson, a software engineer at NVIDIA: "Most ciphers consist of a key setup phase and an operation phase. During key setup, the internal state is initialised. During operation, input ciphertext or plaintext is encrypted or decrypted. Key setup only needs to be conducted once for each key that is used"bcrypt runs in two phases:
A function called EksBlowfishSetup is setup using the desired cost, the salt, and the password to initialize the state of eksblowfish. Then, bcrypt spends a lot of time running an expensive key schedule which consists of performing a key derivation where we derive a set of subkeys from a primary key. Here, the password is used as the primary key. In case that the user selected a bad or short password, we stretch that password/key into a longer password/key. The aforementioned practice is also known as key stretching.
Regarding adaptable cost, we could say that bcrypt is an adaptive hash function as we are able to increase the number of iterations performed by the function based on a passed key factor, the cost. This adaptability is what allows us to compensate for increasing computer power, but it comes with an opportunity cost: speed or security?
Being able to tune the cost of bcrypt allow us to scale with hardware optimization. Following a modern definition of Moore's Law, the number of transistors per square inch on integrated systems has been doubling approximately every 18 months. In 2 years, we could increase the cost factor to accommodate any change. However, we need to be careful with this: if we simply increase the work factor of bcrypt in our code, everyone will be locked out. A migration process is necessary in this case.
A cost factor of 30 could take 44370461014.7 milliseconds to calculate. That is, 739507.68 minutes or 513.55 days! A much faster machine optimized with the latest and the greatest technology available today could have smaller computation times. However, bcrypt can easily scale our hashing process to accommodate to faster hardware, leaving us a lot of wiggle room to prevent attackers from benefiting from future technology improvements.
If a company ever detects or suspects that a data breach has compromised passwords, even in hash form, it must prompt its users to change their password right away. While hashing and salting prevent a brute-force attack of billions of attempts to be successful, a single password crack is computationally feasible. An attacker may, with tremendous amount of computational power, or by sheer luck, crack a single password, but even then, the process would be most certainly slow due to the characteristics of bcrypt, giving the company and their users precious time to change passwords.
We are going to explore its implementation using Node.js and its popular node.bcrypt.js implementation. You don't need to create a Node.js project. The purpose of this section is to show the common steps that developers have to take when integrating bcrypt in their backend.
bcrypt gives us access to a Node.js library that has utility methods to facilitate the hashing process. saltRounds represent the cost or work factor. We are going to use a random password, plainTextPassword1, for the example. 2351a5e196