Slightly OT. Besides future proofing due to upcoming crypto changes you might want to look into a module like bcrypt to help prevent against improvements in password cracking software: https://npmjs.org/package/bcrypt
-- Daniel R. <dani...@neophi.com> [http://danielr.neophi.com/] On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no>wrote: > I'd like to store user password hashes in a database. > > When a new password is created, I get some bytes from > crypto.randombytes to use as salt, then feed the salt and password to > crypto.pbkdf2 (along with an iteration count and size). > > I convert the salt with salt.toString('base64') in order to save it in > the password database. > > I have noticed that the resulting key from pbkdf2 is essentially a > binary coded string; so convert it using > new Buffer(derivedKey,'binary').toString('base64') > before saving it to the database. > > However, I see that the crypto API is going to change to using buffers > rather than binary encoded strings. Also, the 'binary' encoding is > going away. > > That is fine and well, but what do I need to do to ensure that the > password hashes will be the same after the crypto API changes? > > I understand I will have to rewrite the code, of course, but I want to > be able to use the same old hashes so that the password database can > still be used. > > Can I expect the future crypto.pbkdf2 to produce a buffer identical to > today's new Buffer(derivedKey,'binary')? > > Also, what is most future proof – to feed the binary salt as a buffer > to pbkdf2, or the stringified version thereof? > > - Harald > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
