Cryptacular

The framework is a collection of password hashing functions that use bcrypt as a password hash.

Compared with popular choices like plain text or single rounds of md5 or sha, strong password hashes greatly increase the computational cost of obtaining users' passwords from a leaked password database.

Cryptacular's interface was inspired by zope.password.

Cryptacular also provides a convenient way to recognize and upgrade obsolete password hashes on the fly when users log in with their correct password.

Features:

• Algorithms:
• pbkdf2
• Python's builtin ``crypt`` module

What is new in this release:

• Fixed pypy support by replacing "if 'unicode' in __builtins__"

What is new in version 1.3:

• Python 3 support contributed by Frank Smit (some tests do not run).
• Fix staticmethod issue with CRYPTPasswordManager.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• Constant-time comparison of hashes.

What is new in version 0.9:

• Add cryptacular.crypt.CRYPTPasswordManager(prefix) based on Python's builtin crypt().