cic-internal-integration/apps/cic-ussd/cic_ussd/encoder.py
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# third party imports
import bcrypt
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
class PasswordEncoder(Fernet):
"""This class is responsible for defining the encryption function for password encoding in the application and the
provision of a class method that can be used to define the static key attribute at the application's entry point.
:cvar key: a URL-safe base64-encoded 32-byte
:type key: bytes
"""
key = None
@classmethod
def set_key(cls, key: bytes):
"""This method sets the value of the static key attribute to make it accessible to all subsequent instances of
the class once defined.
:param key: key: a URL-safe base64-encoded 32-byte
:type key: bytes
"""
cls.key = key
def encrypt(self, ciphertext: bytes):
"""This overloads the encrypt function of the Fernet class
:param ciphertext: The data to be encrypted.
:type ciphertext: bytes
:return: A fernet token (A set of bytes representing the hashed value succeeding the encryption)
:rtype: bytes
"""
return super(PasswordEncoder, self).encrypt(ciphertext)
def create_password_hash(password):
"""This method encrypts a password value using a pre-set pepper and an appended salt. Documentation is brief since
symmetric encryption using a unique key (pepper) and salted passwords before hashing is well documented.
N/B: Fernet encryption requires the unique key to be a URL-safe base64-encoded 32-byte key.
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/fernet/
:param password: A password value
:type password: str
:raises ValueError: if a key whose length length is less than 32 bytes.
:raises binascii.Error: if base64 key is invalid or corrupted.
:return: A fernet token (A set of bytes representing the hashed value succeeding the encryption)
:rtype: str
"""
fernet = PasswordEncoder(PasswordEncoder.key)
return fernet.encrypt(bcrypt.hashpw(password.encode(), bcrypt.gensalt())).decode()
def check_password_hash(password, hashed_password):
"""This method ascertains a password's validity by hashing the provided password value using the original pepper and
compares the resultant fernet signature to the one persisted in the db for a given user.
:param password: A password value
:type password: str
:param hashed_password: A hash for a user's password value
:type hashed_password: str
:raises ValueError: if a key whose length length is less than 32 bytes.
:raises binascii.Error: if base64 key is invalid or corrupted.
:return: Password validity
:rtype: boolean
"""
fernet = PasswordEncoder(PasswordEncoder.key)
hashed_password = fernet.decrypt(hashed_password.encode())
return bcrypt.checkpw(password.encode(), hashed_password)