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Sir
Sir

Reputation: 8280

Blowfish Crypt confusion

Not sure why but i think i have totally not understood how this works....

I found an example script which had this:

echo crypt('abc123', '$2a$04$saltsaltsaltsaltsaltxx');

And it claims to give the output:

$2a$04$saltsaltsaltsaltsaltxuK2.MS4sJd6ZjnuS0fp2eenjndo.g4hS

But when i did it the same code i get:

 $2pGiQ0v1IyNY

As an output... doesn't really explain anything to me so far or why i get a different output to the example i saW?

I'm trying to get the sale + the hashed password and store them in the user table for each user but I'm not following how to:

a) generate a random salt per user

b) get the salt and the hash password from it to store it ?

c) how you then check it on for example a login page

Upvotes: 0

Views: 925

Answers (1)

lanzz
lanzz

Reputation: 43158

From PHP docs:

Blowfish hashing with a salt as follows: "$2a$", a two digit cost parameter, "$", and 22 digits from the alphabet "./0-9A-Za-z". Using characters outside of this range in the salt will cause crypt() to return a zero-length string. The two digit cost parameter is the base-2 logarithm of the iteration count for the underlying Blowfish-based hashing algorithmeter and must be in range 04-31, values outside this range will cause crypt() to fail.

You don't need to split the salt from the hashed password. You store the entire string ("$2a$04$saltsaltsaltsaltsaltxuK2.MS4sJd6ZjnuS0fp2eenjndo.g4hS"), and when you want to verify if a provided password matches your hash, you do

if (crypt($form_password, $stored_hash) == $stored_hash) {
    // password is correct
}

Upvotes: 2

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