https://github.com/kudos/passwords

Passwords is a Python library with a standard and simple interface to cryptographic hashing functions for passwords
https://github.com/kudos/passwords

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Passwords is a Python library with a standard and simple interface to cryptographic hashing functions for passwords

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kudos/passwords
• Owner: kudos
• License: isc
• Created: 2012-09-19T20:28:21.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-05-25T08:57:38.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-04T08:24:26.086Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: passwords, pbkdf2, python
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Passwords

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What is it?

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Passwords is a Python library with a standard and simple interface to cryptographic hashing functions for passwords. It uses a bundled [PBKDF2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2) to give it no external dependancies. Credit goes to Armin Ronacher for the algorithm [implementation](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/python-pbkdf2)

The strings generated contain all the information to recreate the hash from the original password. The algorithm used, the cost factor, the salt and the resulting password hash.

Why?

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This is an attempt to make it easier for developers to find and use a cryptographic library suitable for password storage.

Usage

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    import passwords

    password = "god"

    password_hash = passwords.crypt(password)

    # '$pbkdf2-256-1$8$ndzIsQl2gH4R46d7BCzkWA1K909904c2fe5c48ea1b0bf64caf35663987e871628c5cdbfb'

    passwords.verify(password, password_hash) # True