Security fixies.

Generate new salt for every password.
Support different salt for passwords.
Support SHA512 for hashing.

etc/proxy-server.conf-sample

@@ -47,11 +47,9 @@ use = egg:swauth#swauth
 #   max_token_life = <same as token_life>
 # Specifies how the user key is stored. The default is 'plaintext', leaving the
 # key unsecured but available for key-signing features if such are ever added.
-# An alternative is 'sha1' which stores only a one-way hash of the key leaving
+# An alternative is 'sha512' which stores only a one-way hash of the key leaving
 # it secure but unavailable for key-signing.
 #   auth_type = plaintext
-# Used if the auth_type is sha1 or another method that can make use of a salt.
-#   auth_type_salt = swauthsalt
 # This allows middleware higher in the WSGI pipeline to override auth
 # processing, useful for middleware such as tempurl and formpost. If you know
 # you're not going to use such middleware and you want a bit of extra security,

swauth/authtypes.py

@@ -28,13 +28,10 @@ conditions:
 - Write a match(key, creds) method that will take two arguments: the user's
   key, and the user's retrieved credentials. Return a boolean value that
   indicates whether the match is True or False.
-
-Note that, since some of the encodings will be hashes, swauth supports the
-notion of salts. Thus, self.salt will be set to either a user-specified salt
-value or to a default value.
 """
 
 import hashlib
+import os
 
 
 #: Maximum length any valid token should ever be.
@@ -80,6 +77,20 @@ class Sha1(object):
     must be capitalized. encode and match methods must be provided and are
     the only ones that will be used by swauth.
     """
+
+    def encode_w_salt(self, salt, key):
+        """
+        Encodes a user key with salt into a particular format. The result of
+        this method will be used internally.
+
+        :param salt: Salt for hashing
+        :param key: User's secret key
+        :returns: A string representing user credentials
+        """
+        enc_key = '%s%s' % (salt, key)
+        enc_val = hashlib.sha1(enc_key).hexdigest()
+        return "sha1:%s$%s" % (salt, enc_val)
+
     def encode(self, key):
         """
         Encodes a user key into a particular format. The result of this method
@@ -88,9 +99,8 @@ class Sha1(object):
         :param key: User's secret key
         :returns: A string representing user credentials
         """
-        enc_key = '%s%s' % (self.salt, key)
-        enc_val = hashlib.sha1(enc_key).hexdigest()
-        return "sha1:%s$%s" % (self.salt, enc_val)
+        salt = os.urandom(32).encode('base64').rstrip();
+        return self.encode_w_salt(salt, key)
 
     def match(self, key, creds):
         """
@@ -100,4 +110,56 @@ class Sha1(object):
         :param creds: User's stored credentials
         :returns: True if the supplied key is valid, False otherwise
         """
-        return self.encode(key) == creds
+
+        [type, rest] = creds.split(':')
+        [salt, enc] = rest.split('$')
+
+        return self.encode_w_salt(salt, key) == creds
+
+class Sha512(object):
+    """
+    Provides a particular auth type for encoding format for encoding and
+    matching user keys.
+
+    This class must be all lowercase except for the first character, which
+    must be capitalized. encode and match methods must be provided and are
+    the only ones that will be used by swauth.
+    """
+
+    def encode_w_salt(self, salt, key):
+        """
+        Encodes a user key with salt into a particular format. The result of
+        this method will be used internal.
+
+        :param salt: Salt for hashing
+        :param key: User's secret key
+        :returns: A string representing user credentials
+        """
+        enc_key = '%s%s' % (salt, key)
+        enc_val = hashlib.sha512(enc_key).hexdigest()
+        return "sha512:%s$%s" % (salt, enc_val)
+
+    def encode(self, key):
+        """
+        Encodes a user key into a particular format. The result of this method
+        will be used by swauth for storing user credentials.
+
+        :param key: User's secret key
+        :returns: A string representing user credentials
+        """
+        salt = os.urandom(32).encode('base64').rstrip();
+        return self.encode_w_salt(salt, key)
+
+    def match(self, key, creds):
+        """
+        Checks whether the user-provided key matches the user's credentials
+
+        :param key: User-supplied key
+        :param creds: User's stored credentials
+        :returns: True if the supplied key is valid, False otherwise
+        """
+
+        [type, rest] = creds.split(':')
+        [salt, enc] = rest.split('$')
+
+        return self.encode_w_salt(salt, key) == creds

swauth/middleware.py

@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ class Swauth(object):
         if self.auth_encoder is None:
             raise Exception('Invalid auth_type in config file: %s'
                              % self.auth_type)
-        self.auth_encoder.salt = conf.get('auth_type_salt', 'swauthsalt')
         self.allow_overrides = \
             conf.get('allow_overrides', 't').lower() in TRUE_VALUES
         self.agent = '%(orig)s Swauth'