Bug#817770: ITP: flask-bcrypt -- A Flask extension that provides bcrypt hashing utilities for your application.

[Orestis Ioannou <orestis@oioannou.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Orestis Ioannou <orestis@oioannou.com>

* Package name    : flask-bcrypt
  Version         : 0.7.1
  Upstream Author : Max Countryman <maxc@me.com>
* URL             : http://readthedocs.org/docs/flask-bcrypt/
* License         : BSD-3
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : A Flask extension that provides bcrypt hashing utilities
for your application.

Due to the recent increased prevelance of powerful hardware, such as modern
GPUs, hashes have become increasingly easy to crack. A proactive solution to
this is to use a hash that was designed to be "de-optimized". Bcrypt is such a
hashing facility; unlike hashing algorithms such as MD5 and SHA1, which are
optimized for speed, bcrypt is intentionally structured to be slow.
For sensitive data that must be protected, such as passwords, bcrypt is an
advisable choice.

I plan to maintain this within the DPMT.