Password-hash NPM

Deprecated: Use bcrypt or scrypt

node-password-hash

password-hash is a node.js library to simplify use of hashed passwords.

Storing passwords in plain-text is bad. This library makes the storing of passwords (and subsequent validation of) hashed passwords a bit easier.

password-hash provides functions for generating a hashed passwords and verifying a plain-text password against a hashed password. For a bit of added strength, a random salt is generated when the password is hashed. The hashed password contains both the cryptographic algorithm that was used as well the salt, so all that is needed to verify a plain-text password is the hashed password itself.

Installation

npm install password-hash

Usage

generate(password, options)

Generates a hash of the required password argument. Hashing behavior can be modified with the optional options object:

algorithm - A valid cryptographic algorithm for use with the crypto.createHmac function, defaults to 'sha1'.
saltLength - The length of the salt that will be generated when the password is hashed, defaults to 8.
iterations - The number of times the hashing algorithm should be applied, defaults to 1.

Errors are thrown if:

password is not a string
options.algorithm is specified but not a valid cryptographic algorithm
options.saltLength is specified but not a positive integer

The hashed password will be in the format algorithm$salt$hash.

Example:

verify(password, hashedPassword)

Compares a plain-text password (password) to a hashed password (hashedPassword) and returns a boolean. Both arguments are required.

Example:

isHashed(password)

Check if a password (password) is hashed. Returns a boolean.

Example:

Salt Generation

node 0.5.8 introduced crypto.randomBytes, which generates cryptographically strong pseudo-random data. If the version of node supports crypto.randomBytes it is used to generate the salt, otherwise Math.random, which is not cryptographically strong, is used. This is handled transparently within the salt generation function and does not impact the module's API.