django1/django/utils/crypto.py

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"""
Django's standard crypto functions and utilities.
"""
import hashlib
import hmac
from django.conf import settings
def salted_hmac(key_salt, value, secret=None):
"""
Returns the HMAC-SHA1 of 'value', using a key generated from key_salt and a
secret (which defaults to settings.SECRET_KEY).
A different key_salt should be passed in for every application of HMAC.
"""
if secret is None:
secret = settings.SECRET_KEY
# We need to generate a derived key from our base key. We can do this by
# passing the key_salt and our base key through a pseudo-random function and
# SHA1 works nicely.
key = hashlib.sha1(key_salt + secret).digest()
# If len(key_salt + secret) > sha_constructor().block_size, the above
# line is redundant and could be replaced by key = key_salt + secret, since
# the hmac module does the same thing for keys longer than the block size.
# However, we need to ensure that we *always* do this.
return hmac.new(key, msg=value, digestmod=hashlib.sha1)
def constant_time_compare(val1, val2):
"""
Returns True if the two strings are equal, False otherwise.
The time taken is independent of the number of characters that match.
"""
if len(val1) != len(val2):
return False
result = 0
for x, y in zip(val1, val2):
result |= ord(x) ^ ord(y)
return result == 0