NAME

Crypt::Password::Util - Crypt password utilities

VERSION

This document describes version 0.10 of Crypt::Password::Util (from Perl distribution Crypt-Password-Util), released on 2015-01-25.

SYNOPSIS

 use Crypt::Password::Util qw(crypt_type looks_like_crypt crypt);

 say crypt_type('62F4a6/89.12z');                    # CRYPT
 say crypt_type('$1$$...');                          # MD5-CRYPT
 say crypt_type('$apr1$4DdvgCFk$...');               # MD5-CRYPT
 say crypt_type('$5$4DdvgCFk$...');                  # SSHA256
 say crypt_type('$6$4DdvgCFk$...');                  # SSHA512
 say crypt_type('1a1dc91c907325c69271ddf0c944bc72'); # PLAIN-MD5
 say crypt_type('foo');                              # undef

 say looks_like_crypt('62F4a6/89.12z');   # 1
 say looks_like_crypt('foo');             # 0

 say crypt('pass'); # automatically choose the appropriate type and salt

FUNCTIONS

crypt_type($str) => STR

Return crypt type, or undef if $str does not look like a crypted password. Currently known types:

• BCRYPT

  Passphrase scheme based on Blowfish, designed by Niels Provos and David Mazieres for OpenBSD.

  Recognized by: $2$ or $2a$header followed by 22 base64-digits salt and 31 digits hash.

• CRYPT

  Traditional DES crypt.

  Recognized by: 11 digit base64 characters.

• MD5-CRYPT

  A baroque passphrase scheme based on MD5, designed by Poul-Henning Kamp and originally implemented in FreeBSD.

  Recognized by: $1$ or $apr1$ header.

• PLAIN-MD5

  Unsalted MD5 hash, popular with PHP web applications.

  Recognized by: 32 digits of hex characters.

• SSHA256

  Salted SHA256, supported by glibc 2.7+.

  Recognized by: $5$ header.

• SSHA512

  Salted SHA512, supported by glibc 2.7+.

  Recognized by: $6$ header.

looks_like_crypt($str) => BOOL

Return true if $str looks like a crypted password.

crypt($str) => STR

Like Perl's crypt(), but automatically choose the appropriate crypt type and random salt. Will first choose SSHA512 with 64-bit random salt. If not supported by system, fall back to MD5-CRYPT with 32-bit random salt. If that is not supported, fall back to CRYPT.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Passphrase which recognizes more encodings (but currently not SSHA256 and SSHA512).

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-Password-Util.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Crypt-Password-Util.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Crypt-Password-Util

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.