Bug#817770: ITP: flask-bcrypt -- A Flask extension that provides bcrypt hashing utilities for your application.
On 10.03.2016 00:37, Orestis Ioannou wrote:
> 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.
Already requested: https://bugs.debian.org/816692
Thx for taking care of this.
DS
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