Varje program kräver ett användarnamn och lösenord för att autentisera den giltiga användaren. Ett användarnamn kan vara något som ett e-post-id eller bara en kombination av tecken. Men när man skapar ett lösenord måste man vara mycket försiktig. Eftersom alla med giltiga referenser kan gå in i systemet och komma åt informationen.

Behov av att kryptera ett lösenord

När en användare ställer in sitt lösenord lagras det i databasen som en vanlig text. Att lagra vanlig text som den är i databasen är inte alls säkert. Hackare kan bryta systemet och stjäla lösenorden från databasen.

insättningssorteringsalgoritmer

För att säkerställa säkerheten för användarens lösenord krypteras det med olika krypteringstekniker. Med hjälp av olika krypteringstekniker lagras lösenordet med vanlig text i krypterad form i databasen. Det finns många metoder som kan användas för att kryptera lösenordet. Men hashing är en av de mest populära krypteringsteknikerna.

Java Secure Hashing-tekniker

Det krypterade hashvärdet genereras med hjälp av vissa algoritmer på lösenordet i ren text som användaren tillhandahåller. Java-programmering stöder flera hashtekniker för att kryptera ett lösenord.

MD5 Hashing-teknik

MD5 (Message Digest) är en mycket populär hashalgoritm. Det är en kryptografisk hashfunktion som genererar ett 128-bitars hashvärde. Denna algoritm definieras under java.security-paketet i Java-programmering.

PassEncTech1.java

 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import java.security.MessageDigest; public class PassEncTech1 { /* Driver Code */ public static void main(String[] args) { /* Plain-text password initialization. */ String password = &apos;myPassword&apos;; String encryptedpassword = null; try { /* MessageDigest instance for MD5. */ MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance(&apos;MD5&apos;); /* Add plain-text password bytes to digest using MD5 update() method. */ m.update(password.getBytes()); /* Convert the hash value into bytes */ byte[] bytes = m.digest(); /* The bytes array has bytes in decimal form. Converting it into hexadecimal format. */ StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(); for(int i=0; i <bytes.length ;i++) { s.append(integer.tostring((bytes[i] & 0xff) + 0x100, 16).substring(1)); } * complete hashed password in hexadecimal format encryptedpassword="s.toString();" catch (nosuchalgorithmexception e) e.printstacktrace(); display the unencrypted and encrypted passwords. system.out.println('plain-text password: ' password); system.out.println('encrypted using md5: encryptedpassword); < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> Plain-text password: myPassword Encrypted password using MD5: deb1536f480475f7d593219aa1afd74c </pre> <p>The above code shows the implementation of <strong> <em>MessageDigest</em> </strong> class in <strong> <em>java.security</em> </strong> package. The MD5 returns a byte array that needs to be converted into a readable hexadecimal format.</p> <p>The MD5 hashing technique is easy and fast to implement but it is also prone to brute force attacks or dictionary attacks.</p> <h3>SHA256</h3> <p>SHA is the Secure Hash Algorithm. It uses a cryptographic function that takes up the 32-bit plain-text password and converts it into a fixed size 256-bit hash value. This hashing technique is implemented using the MessageDiagest class of java.security package.</p> <p>It is a one-way encryption technique. Once the passphrase is encrypted it cannot be decrypted back.</p> <p> <strong>PassEncTech2.java</strong> </p> <pre> import java.math.BigInteger; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public class PassEncTech2 { public static byte[] getSHA(String input) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { /* MessageDigest instance for hashing using SHA256 */ MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(&apos;SHA-256&apos;); /* digest() method called to calculate message digest of an input and return array of byte */ return md.digest(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); } public static String toHexString(byte[] hash) { /* Convert byte array of hash into digest */ BigInteger number = new BigInteger(1, hash); /* Convert the digest into hex value */ StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder(number.toString(16)); /* Pad with leading zeros */ while (hexString.length() <32) { hexstring.insert(0, '0'); } return hexstring.tostring(); * driver code public static void main(string args[]) try string string1="myPassword" ; system.out.println('
' + ' : tohexstring(getsha(string1))); string2="hashtrial" tohexstring(getsha(string2))); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception e) system.out.println('exception thrown for incorrect algorithm: e); < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> myPassword : 76549b827ec46e705fd03831813fa52172338f0dfcbd711ed44b81a96dac51c6 hashtrial : d3e3224a59d69e9a000f1ce6782cb6a8be1eb3155610ff41bffbcbc95adc5d7 </pre> <p>The above code uses the instance of <strong> <em>MessageDigest</em> </strong> class to generate a hash for <strong> <em>SHA256</em> </strong> . The SHA256 returns a byte array that needs to be converted into a readable hexadecimal format. And lastly, the encrypted hash value is displayed.</p> <h3>SHA512 MD5 Hashing Technique</h3> <p>SHA512 uses a cryptographic function that takes up the 64-bit plain-text password and converts it into a fixed size 512-bit hash value. This hashing technique is also implemented using the MessageDiagest class of java.security package.</p> <p> <strong>PassEncTech2.java</strong> </p> <pre> import java.math.BigInteger; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public class PassEncTech2 { public static byte[] getSHA(String input) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { /* MessageDigest instance for hashing using SHA512*/ MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(&apos;SHA-512&apos;); /* digest() method called to calculate message digest of an input and return array of byte */ return md.digest(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); } public static String toHexString(byte[] hash) { /* Convert byte array of hash into digest */ BigInteger number = new BigInteger(1, hash); /* Convert the digest into hex value */ StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder(number.toString(16)); /* Pad with leading zeros */ while (hexString.length() <32) { hexstring.insert(0, '0'); } return hexstring.tostring(); * driver code public static void main(string args[]) try string string1="myPassword" ; system.out.println('
' + ' : tohexstring(getsha(string1))); string2="hashtrial" tohexstring(getsha(string2))); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception e) system.out.println('exception thrown for incorrect algorithm: e); < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> myPassword : 450ad03db9395dfccb5e03066fd7f16cfba2b61e23d516373714471459052ec90a9a4bf3a151e600ea8aaed36e3b8c21a3d38ab1705839749d130da4380f1448 hashtrial : 9520ea1a8d60d23334e6d59acebd587de6fec1e53db5836f467096c540ae60f7c85e9fbc90856dee9d6563609b8786b03b47892af0bad44bdcab2206f22df5cb </pre> <p>The above code uses the instance of <strong> <em>MessageDigest</em> </strong> class to generate a hash for <strong> <em>SHA512</em> </strong> . The SHA512 returns a byte array that needs to be converted into a readable hexadecimal format. And lastly, the encrypted hash value is displayed.</p> <h3>Password-Based Encryption using Salt and Base64:</h3> <p>The password-based encryption technique uses plain text passwords and salt values to generate a hash value. And the hash value is then encoded as a Base64 string. Salt value contains random data generated using an instance of Random class from java.util package.</p> <p>The following program demonstrates password encryption using salt and base64.</p> <p> <strong>PassEncTech4.java</strong> </p> <pre> import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import java.security.SecureRandom; import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Base64; import java.util.Random; import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory; import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec; public class PassEncTech4 { /* Driver Code */ public static void main(String[] args) { /* Plain text Password. */ String password = &apos;myNewPass123&apos;; /* generates the Salt value. It can be stored in a database. */ String saltvalue = PassBasedEnc.getSaltvalue(30); /* generates an encrypted password. It can be stored in a database.*/ String encryptedpassword = PassBasedEnc.generateSecurePassword(password, saltvalue); /* Print out plain text password, encrypted password and salt value. */ System.out.println(&apos;Plain text password = &apos; + password); System.out.println(&apos;Secure password = &apos; + encryptedpassword); System.out.println(&apos;Salt value = &apos; + saltvalue); /* verify the original password and encrypted password */ Boolean status = PassBasedEnc.verifyUserPassword(password,encryptedpassword,saltvalue); if(status==true) System.out.println(&apos;Password Matched!!&apos;); else System.out.println(&apos;Password Mismatched&apos;); } } class PassBasedEnc { /* Declaration of variables */ private static final Random random = new SecureRandom(); private static final String characters = &apos;0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&apos;; private static final int iterations = 10000; private static final int keylength = 256; /* Method to generate the salt value. */ public static String getSaltvalue(int length) { StringBuilder finalval = new StringBuilder(length); for (int i = 0; i <length; i++) { finalval.append(characters.charat(random.nextint(characters.length()))); } return new string(finalval); * method to generate the hash value public static byte[] hash(char[] password, salt) pbekeyspec spec="new" pbekeyspec(password, salt, iterations, keylength); arrays.fill(password, character.min_value); try secretkeyfactory skf="SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(&apos;PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1&apos;);" skf.generatesecret(spec).getencoded(); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception | invalidkeyspecexception e) throw assertionerror('error while hashing a password: ' + e.getmessage(), e); finally spec.clearpassword(); encrypt password using original and salt value. string generatesecurepassword(string finalval="null;" securepassword="hash(password.toCharArray()," salt.getbytes()); finalval; verify if both matches or not boolean verifyuserpassword(string providedpassword, securedpassword, secure with same newsecurepassword="generateSecurePassword(providedPassword," salt); check two passwords are equal < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> Plain text password = myNewPass123 Secure password = sA0jNGQTrAfMUiqrB++bMKTU55ThdFCl16ZZTIXwD2M= Salt value = n7d9MPQFXxDqzT6onmong3hQt8Nyko Password Matched!! </pre> <p>In the above code, two classes are defined.</p> <ol class="points"> <li>The class <strong> <em>PassEncTech4</em> </strong> contains the driver code for the program. It generates a salt value and encrypted password using the given plain-text password. And verifies them using the value returned by the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword() </em> </strong> </li> <li>In the class <strong> <em>PassBasedEnc, </em> </strong> 4 methods are defined. The first method is <strong> <em>getSaltvalue()</em> </strong> which generates the value using <strong> <em>Random</em> </strong> class from <strong> <em>util</em> </strong> package. Then <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> is defined that has a return type of byte array. The <strong> <em>generateSecurePassword() </em> </strong> uses plain-text password and salt value with the <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> method. And lastly, the two passwords are matched using the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword()</em> </strong> method.</li> </ol> <h2>Techniques for Cracking the Hash</h2> <p>A hash value is prone to different kinds of attacks by attackers. Some of them are mentioned below,</p> <ol class="points"> <tr><td>Brute force attack:</td> In the brute force attack, the attacker submits multiple combinations of passphrases or passwords in the hope that one of the combinations will match and he can enter into the system. <br> To avoid this kind of attack the passphrase should use a combination of alphabets, numbers and symbols. Another way is to set a fixed number of invalid attempts and after that ask for human verification like a captcha. </tr><tr><td>Dictionary attack:</td> Dictionary attack is an enhanced version of brute force attack. In this technique, the encrypted cipher is tried to be decrypted using multiple possibilities, like the words in a dictionary. </tr><tr><td>Rainbow tables:</td> The technique is about a rainbow table that is precomputed table for reversing the cryptographic hash functions. The rainbow tables are used to discover the plain text passwords up to a certain length and a limited number of characters. So it uses a side-loop table in order to reduce the storage usage and increase the speed of attack. </tr></ol> <hr></length;></pre></32)></pre></32)></pre></bytes.length>

Ovanstående kod visar implementeringen av MessageDigest klass i java.säkerhet paket. MD5 returnerar en byte-array som måste konverteras till ett läsbart hexadecimalt format.

MD5-hashningstekniken är enkel och snabb att implementera men den är också benägen för brute force-attacker eller ordboksattacker.

SHA256

SHA är Secure Hash Algorithm. Den använder en kryptografisk funktion som tar upp 32-bitars rentextlösenord och konverterar det till ett hashvärde på 256-bitars fast storlek. Denna hashteknik implementeras med klassen MessageDiagest av java.security-paketet.

Det är en enkelriktad krypteringsteknik. När lösenfrasen väl är krypterad kan den inte dekrypteras tillbaka.

PassEncTech2.java

 import java.math.BigInteger; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public class PassEncTech2 { public static byte[] getSHA(String input) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { /* MessageDigest instance for hashing using SHA256 */ MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(&apos;SHA-256&apos;); /* digest() method called to calculate message digest of an input and return array of byte */ return md.digest(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); } public static String toHexString(byte[] hash) { /* Convert byte array of hash into digest */ BigInteger number = new BigInteger(1, hash); /* Convert the digest into hex value */ StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder(number.toString(16)); /* Pad with leading zeros */ while (hexString.length() <32) { hexstring.insert(0, \'0\'); } return hexstring.tostring(); * driver code public static void main(string args[]) try string string1="myPassword" ; system.out.println(\'
\' + \' : tohexstring(getsha(string1))); string2="hashtrial" tohexstring(getsha(string2))); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception e) system.out.println(\'exception thrown for incorrect algorithm: e); < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> myPassword : 76549b827ec46e705fd03831813fa52172338f0dfcbd711ed44b81a96dac51c6 hashtrial : d3e3224a59d69e9a000f1ce6782cb6a8be1eb3155610ff41bffbcbc95adc5d7 </pre> <p>The above code uses the instance of <strong> <em>MessageDigest</em> </strong> class to generate a hash for <strong> <em>SHA256</em> </strong> . The SHA256 returns a byte array that needs to be converted into a readable hexadecimal format. And lastly, the encrypted hash value is displayed.</p> <h3>SHA512 MD5 Hashing Technique</h3> <p>SHA512 uses a cryptographic function that takes up the 64-bit plain-text password and converts it into a fixed size 512-bit hash value. This hashing technique is also implemented using the MessageDiagest class of java.security package.</p> <p> <strong>PassEncTech2.java</strong> </p> <pre> import java.math.BigInteger; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public class PassEncTech2 { public static byte[] getSHA(String input) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { /* MessageDigest instance for hashing using SHA512*/ MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(&apos;SHA-512&apos;); /* digest() method called to calculate message digest of an input and return array of byte */ return md.digest(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); } public static String toHexString(byte[] hash) { /* Convert byte array of hash into digest */ BigInteger number = new BigInteger(1, hash); /* Convert the digest into hex value */ StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder(number.toString(16)); /* Pad with leading zeros */ while (hexString.length() <32) { hexstring.insert(0, \'0\'); } return hexstring.tostring(); * driver code public static void main(string args[]) try string string1="myPassword" ; system.out.println(\'
\' + \' : tohexstring(getsha(string1))); string2="hashtrial" tohexstring(getsha(string2))); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception e) system.out.println(\'exception thrown for incorrect algorithm: e); < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> myPassword : 450ad03db9395dfccb5e03066fd7f16cfba2b61e23d516373714471459052ec90a9a4bf3a151e600ea8aaed36e3b8c21a3d38ab1705839749d130da4380f1448 hashtrial : 9520ea1a8d60d23334e6d59acebd587de6fec1e53db5836f467096c540ae60f7c85e9fbc90856dee9d6563609b8786b03b47892af0bad44bdcab2206f22df5cb </pre> <p>The above code uses the instance of <strong> <em>MessageDigest</em> </strong> class to generate a hash for <strong> <em>SHA512</em> </strong> . The SHA512 returns a byte array that needs to be converted into a readable hexadecimal format. And lastly, the encrypted hash value is displayed.</p> <h3>Password-Based Encryption using Salt and Base64:</h3> <p>The password-based encryption technique uses plain text passwords and salt values to generate a hash value. And the hash value is then encoded as a Base64 string. Salt value contains random data generated using an instance of Random class from java.util package.</p> <p>The following program demonstrates password encryption using salt and base64.</p> <p> <strong>PassEncTech4.java</strong> </p> <pre> import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import java.security.SecureRandom; import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Base64; import java.util.Random; import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory; import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec; public class PassEncTech4 { /* Driver Code */ public static void main(String[] args) { /* Plain text Password. */ String password = &apos;myNewPass123&apos;; /* generates the Salt value. It can be stored in a database. */ String saltvalue = PassBasedEnc.getSaltvalue(30); /* generates an encrypted password. It can be stored in a database.*/ String encryptedpassword = PassBasedEnc.generateSecurePassword(password, saltvalue); /* Print out plain text password, encrypted password and salt value. */ System.out.println(&apos;Plain text password = &apos; + password); System.out.println(&apos;Secure password = &apos; + encryptedpassword); System.out.println(&apos;Salt value = &apos; + saltvalue); /* verify the original password and encrypted password */ Boolean status = PassBasedEnc.verifyUserPassword(password,encryptedpassword,saltvalue); if(status==true) System.out.println(&apos;Password Matched!!&apos;); else System.out.println(&apos;Password Mismatched&apos;); } } class PassBasedEnc { /* Declaration of variables */ private static final Random random = new SecureRandom(); private static final String characters = &apos;0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&apos;; private static final int iterations = 10000; private static final int keylength = 256; /* Method to generate the salt value. */ public static String getSaltvalue(int length) { StringBuilder finalval = new StringBuilder(length); for (int i = 0; i <length; i++) { finalval.append(characters.charat(random.nextint(characters.length()))); } return new string(finalval); * method to generate the hash value public static byte[] hash(char[] password, salt) pbekeyspec spec="new" pbekeyspec(password, salt, iterations, keylength); arrays.fill(password, character.min_value); try secretkeyfactory skf="SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(&apos;PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1&apos;);" skf.generatesecret(spec).getencoded(); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception | invalidkeyspecexception e) throw assertionerror(\'error while hashing a password: \' + e.getmessage(), e); finally spec.clearpassword(); encrypt password using original and salt value. string generatesecurepassword(string finalval="null;" securepassword="hash(password.toCharArray()," salt.getbytes()); finalval; verify if both matches or not boolean verifyuserpassword(string providedpassword, securedpassword, secure with same newsecurepassword="generateSecurePassword(providedPassword," salt); check two passwords are equal < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> Plain text password = myNewPass123 Secure password = sA0jNGQTrAfMUiqrB++bMKTU55ThdFCl16ZZTIXwD2M= Salt value = n7d9MPQFXxDqzT6onmong3hQt8Nyko Password Matched!! </pre> <p>In the above code, two classes are defined.</p> <ol class="points"> <li>The class <strong> <em>PassEncTech4</em> </strong> contains the driver code for the program. It generates a salt value and encrypted password using the given plain-text password. And verifies them using the value returned by the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword() </em> </strong> </li> <li>In the class <strong> <em>PassBasedEnc, </em> </strong> 4 methods are defined. The first method is <strong> <em>getSaltvalue()</em> </strong> which generates the value using <strong> <em>Random</em> </strong> class from <strong> <em>util</em> </strong> package. Then <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> is defined that has a return type of byte array. The <strong> <em>generateSecurePassword() </em> </strong> uses plain-text password and salt value with the <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> method. And lastly, the two passwords are matched using the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword()</em> </strong> method.</li> </ol> <h2>Techniques for Cracking the Hash</h2> <p>A hash value is prone to different kinds of attacks by attackers. Some of them are mentioned below,</p> <ol class="points"> <tr><td>Brute force attack:</td> In the brute force attack, the attacker submits multiple combinations of passphrases or passwords in the hope that one of the combinations will match and he can enter into the system. <br> To avoid this kind of attack the passphrase should use a combination of alphabets, numbers and symbols. Another way is to set a fixed number of invalid attempts and after that ask for human verification like a captcha. </tr><tr><td>Dictionary attack:</td> Dictionary attack is an enhanced version of brute force attack. In this technique, the encrypted cipher is tried to be decrypted using multiple possibilities, like the words in a dictionary. </tr><tr><td>Rainbow tables:</td> The technique is about a rainbow table that is precomputed table for reversing the cryptographic hash functions. The rainbow tables are used to discover the plain text passwords up to a certain length and a limited number of characters. So it uses a side-loop table in order to reduce the storage usage and increase the speed of attack. </tr></ol> <hr></length;></pre></32)></pre></32)>

Ovanstående kod använder instansen av MessageDigest klass att generera en hash för SHA256 . SHA256 returnerar en byte-array som måste konverteras till ett läsbart hexadecimalt format. Och slutligen visas det krypterade hashvärdet.

SHA512 MD5 Hashing-teknik

SHA512 använder en kryptografisk funktion som tar upp 64-bitars rentextlösenord och konverterar det till ett hashvärde på 512-bitars fast storlek. Denna hashteknik implementeras också med klassen MessageDiagest av java.security-paketet.

PassEncTech2.java

 import java.math.BigInteger; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; public class PassEncTech2 { public static byte[] getSHA(String input) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException { /* MessageDigest instance for hashing using SHA512*/ MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(&apos;SHA-512&apos;); /* digest() method called to calculate message digest of an input and return array of byte */ return md.digest(input.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); } public static String toHexString(byte[] hash) { /* Convert byte array of hash into digest */ BigInteger number = new BigInteger(1, hash); /* Convert the digest into hex value */ StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder(number.toString(16)); /* Pad with leading zeros */ while (hexString.length() <32) { hexstring.insert(0, \'0\'); } return hexstring.tostring(); * driver code public static void main(string args[]) try string string1="myPassword" ; system.out.println(\'
\' + \' : tohexstring(getsha(string1))); string2="hashtrial" tohexstring(getsha(string2))); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception e) system.out.println(\'exception thrown for incorrect algorithm: e); < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> myPassword : 450ad03db9395dfccb5e03066fd7f16cfba2b61e23d516373714471459052ec90a9a4bf3a151e600ea8aaed36e3b8c21a3d38ab1705839749d130da4380f1448 hashtrial : 9520ea1a8d60d23334e6d59acebd587de6fec1e53db5836f467096c540ae60f7c85e9fbc90856dee9d6563609b8786b03b47892af0bad44bdcab2206f22df5cb </pre> <p>The above code uses the instance of <strong> <em>MessageDigest</em> </strong> class to generate a hash for <strong> <em>SHA512</em> </strong> . The SHA512 returns a byte array that needs to be converted into a readable hexadecimal format. And lastly, the encrypted hash value is displayed.</p> <h3>Password-Based Encryption using Salt and Base64:</h3> <p>The password-based encryption technique uses plain text passwords and salt values to generate a hash value. And the hash value is then encoded as a Base64 string. Salt value contains random data generated using an instance of Random class from java.util package.</p> <p>The following program demonstrates password encryption using salt and base64.</p> <p> <strong>PassEncTech4.java</strong> </p> <pre> import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import java.security.SecureRandom; import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Base64; import java.util.Random; import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory; import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec; public class PassEncTech4 { /* Driver Code */ public static void main(String[] args) { /* Plain text Password. */ String password = &apos;myNewPass123&apos;; /* generates the Salt value. It can be stored in a database. */ String saltvalue = PassBasedEnc.getSaltvalue(30); /* generates an encrypted password. It can be stored in a database.*/ String encryptedpassword = PassBasedEnc.generateSecurePassword(password, saltvalue); /* Print out plain text password, encrypted password and salt value. */ System.out.println(&apos;Plain text password = &apos; + password); System.out.println(&apos;Secure password = &apos; + encryptedpassword); System.out.println(&apos;Salt value = &apos; + saltvalue); /* verify the original password and encrypted password */ Boolean status = PassBasedEnc.verifyUserPassword(password,encryptedpassword,saltvalue); if(status==true) System.out.println(&apos;Password Matched!!&apos;); else System.out.println(&apos;Password Mismatched&apos;); } } class PassBasedEnc { /* Declaration of variables */ private static final Random random = new SecureRandom(); private static final String characters = &apos;0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&apos;; private static final int iterations = 10000; private static final int keylength = 256; /* Method to generate the salt value. */ public static String getSaltvalue(int length) { StringBuilder finalval = new StringBuilder(length); for (int i = 0; i <length; i++) { finalval.append(characters.charat(random.nextint(characters.length()))); } return new string(finalval); * method to generate the hash value public static byte[] hash(char[] password, salt) pbekeyspec spec="new" pbekeyspec(password, salt, iterations, keylength); arrays.fill(password, character.min_value); try secretkeyfactory skf="SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(&apos;PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1&apos;);" skf.generatesecret(spec).getencoded(); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception | invalidkeyspecexception e) throw assertionerror(\'error while hashing a password: \' + e.getmessage(), e); finally spec.clearpassword(); encrypt password using original and salt value. string generatesecurepassword(string finalval="null;" securepassword="hash(password.toCharArray()," salt.getbytes()); finalval; verify if both matches or not boolean verifyuserpassword(string providedpassword, securedpassword, secure with same newsecurepassword="generateSecurePassword(providedPassword," salt); check two passwords are equal < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> Plain text password = myNewPass123 Secure password = sA0jNGQTrAfMUiqrB++bMKTU55ThdFCl16ZZTIXwD2M= Salt value = n7d9MPQFXxDqzT6onmong3hQt8Nyko Password Matched!! </pre> <p>In the above code, two classes are defined.</p> <ol class="points"> <li>The class <strong> <em>PassEncTech4</em> </strong> contains the driver code for the program. It generates a salt value and encrypted password using the given plain-text password. And verifies them using the value returned by the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword() </em> </strong> </li> <li>In the class <strong> <em>PassBasedEnc, </em> </strong> 4 methods are defined. The first method is <strong> <em>getSaltvalue()</em> </strong> which generates the value using <strong> <em>Random</em> </strong> class from <strong> <em>util</em> </strong> package. Then <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> is defined that has a return type of byte array. The <strong> <em>generateSecurePassword() </em> </strong> uses plain-text password and salt value with the <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> method. And lastly, the two passwords are matched using the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword()</em> </strong> method.</li> </ol> <h2>Techniques for Cracking the Hash</h2> <p>A hash value is prone to different kinds of attacks by attackers. Some of them are mentioned below,</p> <ol class="points"> <tr><td>Brute force attack:</td> In the brute force attack, the attacker submits multiple combinations of passphrases or passwords in the hope that one of the combinations will match and he can enter into the system. <br> To avoid this kind of attack the passphrase should use a combination of alphabets, numbers and symbols. Another way is to set a fixed number of invalid attempts and after that ask for human verification like a captcha. </tr><tr><td>Dictionary attack:</td> Dictionary attack is an enhanced version of brute force attack. In this technique, the encrypted cipher is tried to be decrypted using multiple possibilities, like the words in a dictionary. </tr><tr><td>Rainbow tables:</td> The technique is about a rainbow table that is precomputed table for reversing the cryptographic hash functions. The rainbow tables are used to discover the plain text passwords up to a certain length and a limited number of characters. So it uses a side-loop table in order to reduce the storage usage and increase the speed of attack. </tr></ol> <hr></length;></pre></32)>

Ovanstående kod använder instansen av MessageDigest klass att generera en hash för SHA512 . SHA512 returnerar en byte-array som måste konverteras till ett läsbart hexadecimalt format. Och slutligen visas det krypterade hashvärdet.

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Lösenordsbaserad kryptering med Salt och Base64:

Den lösenordsbaserade krypteringstekniken använder vanlig textlösenord och saltvärden för att generera ett hashvärde. Och hashvärdet kodas sedan som en Base64-sträng. Saltvärde innehåller slumpmässiga data som genererats med en instans av klassen Random från paketet java.util.

Följande program demonstrerar lösenordskryptering med salt och base64.

PassEncTech4.java

 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import java.security.SecureRandom; import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Base64; import java.util.Random; import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory; import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec; public class PassEncTech4 { /* Driver Code */ public static void main(String[] args) { /* Plain text Password. */ String password = &apos;myNewPass123&apos;; /* generates the Salt value. It can be stored in a database. */ String saltvalue = PassBasedEnc.getSaltvalue(30); /* generates an encrypted password. It can be stored in a database.*/ String encryptedpassword = PassBasedEnc.generateSecurePassword(password, saltvalue); /* Print out plain text password, encrypted password and salt value. */ System.out.println(&apos;Plain text password = &apos; + password); System.out.println(&apos;Secure password = &apos; + encryptedpassword); System.out.println(&apos;Salt value = &apos; + saltvalue); /* verify the original password and encrypted password */ Boolean status = PassBasedEnc.verifyUserPassword(password,encryptedpassword,saltvalue); if(status==true) System.out.println(&apos;Password Matched!!&apos;); else System.out.println(&apos;Password Mismatched&apos;); } } class PassBasedEnc { /* Declaration of variables */ private static final Random random = new SecureRandom(); private static final String characters = &apos;0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&apos;; private static final int iterations = 10000; private static final int keylength = 256; /* Method to generate the salt value. */ public static String getSaltvalue(int length) { StringBuilder finalval = new StringBuilder(length); for (int i = 0; i <length; i++) { finalval.append(characters.charat(random.nextint(characters.length()))); } return new string(finalval); * method to generate the hash value public static byte[] hash(char[] password, salt) pbekeyspec spec="new" pbekeyspec(password, salt, iterations, keylength); arrays.fill(password, character.min_value); try secretkeyfactory skf="SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(&apos;PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1&apos;);" skf.generatesecret(spec).getencoded(); catch (nosuchalgorithmexception | invalidkeyspecexception e) throw assertionerror(\'error while hashing a password: \' + e.getmessage(), e); finally spec.clearpassword(); encrypt password using original and salt value. string generatesecurepassword(string finalval="null;" securepassword="hash(password.toCharArray()," salt.getbytes()); finalval; verify if both matches or not boolean verifyuserpassword(string providedpassword, securedpassword, secure with same newsecurepassword="generateSecurePassword(providedPassword," salt); check two passwords are equal < pre> <p> <strong>Output:</strong> </p> <pre> Plain text password = myNewPass123 Secure password = sA0jNGQTrAfMUiqrB++bMKTU55ThdFCl16ZZTIXwD2M= Salt value = n7d9MPQFXxDqzT6onmong3hQt8Nyko Password Matched!! </pre> <p>In the above code, two classes are defined.</p> <ol class="points"> <li>The class <strong> <em>PassEncTech4</em> </strong> contains the driver code for the program. It generates a salt value and encrypted password using the given plain-text password. And verifies them using the value returned by the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword() </em> </strong> </li> <li>In the class <strong> <em>PassBasedEnc, </em> </strong> 4 methods are defined. The first method is <strong> <em>getSaltvalue()</em> </strong> which generates the value using <strong> <em>Random</em> </strong> class from <strong> <em>util</em> </strong> package. Then <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> is defined that has a return type of byte array. The <strong> <em>generateSecurePassword() </em> </strong> uses plain-text password and salt value with the <strong> <em>hash()</em> </strong> method. And lastly, the two passwords are matched using the <strong> <em>verifyUserPassword()</em> </strong> method.</li> </ol> <h2>Techniques for Cracking the Hash</h2> <p>A hash value is prone to different kinds of attacks by attackers. Some of them are mentioned below,</p> <ol class="points"> <tr><td>Brute force attack:</td> In the brute force attack, the attacker submits multiple combinations of passphrases or passwords in the hope that one of the combinations will match and he can enter into the system. <br> To avoid this kind of attack the passphrase should use a combination of alphabets, numbers and symbols. Another way is to set a fixed number of invalid attempts and after that ask for human verification like a captcha. </tr><tr><td>Dictionary attack:</td> Dictionary attack is an enhanced version of brute force attack. In this technique, the encrypted cipher is tried to be decrypted using multiple possibilities, like the words in a dictionary. </tr><tr><td>Rainbow tables:</td> The technique is about a rainbow table that is precomputed table for reversing the cryptographic hash functions. The rainbow tables are used to discover the plain text passwords up to a certain length and a limited number of characters. So it uses a side-loop table in order to reduce the storage usage and increase the speed of attack. </tr></ol> <hr></length;>

I ovanstående kod definieras två klasser.

1. Klassen PassEncTech4 innehåller drivrutinskoden för programmet. Den genererar ett saltvärde och ett krypterat lösenord med det givna lösenordet i vanlig text. Och verifierar dem med värdet som returneras av verifyUserPassword()
2. I klassen PassBasedEnc, 4 metoder är definierade. Den första metoden är getSaltvalue() som genererar värdet med hjälp av slumpmässig klass från util paket. Sedan hash() är definierad som har en returtyp av byte array. De generSecurePassword() använder vanlig textlösenord och saltvärde med hash() metod. Och slutligen matchas de två lösenorden med hjälp av verifyUserPassword() metod.

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Ett hashvärde är benäget för olika typer av attacker från angripare. Några av dem nämns nedan,

Brute force attack:I brute force-attacken skickar angriparen in flera kombinationer av lösenfraser eller lösenord i hopp om att en av kombinationerna ska matcha och han kan komma in i systemet.
För att undvika denna typ av attack bör lösenfrasen använda en kombination av alfabet, siffror och symboler. Ett annat sätt är att ställa in ett fast antal ogiltiga försök och efter det be om mänsklig verifiering som en captcha.Ordboksattack:Dictionary attack är en förbättrad version av brute force attack. I den här tekniken försöker man dekryptera det krypterade chiffret med hjälp av flera möjligheter, som orden i en ordbok.Regnbågsbord:Tekniken handlar om en regnbågstabell som är förberäknad tabell för att vända de kryptografiska hashfunktionerna. Regnbågstabellerna används för att upptäcka vanlig textlösenord upp till en viss längd och ett begränsat antal tecken. Så den använder en sidoslingatabell för att minska lagringsanvändningen och öka attackhastigheten.