Всяко софтуерно приложение изисква потребителско име и парола, за да удостовери валидния потребител. Потребителското име може да бъде нещо подобно на имейл адрес или просто комбинация от знаци. Но докато създавате парола, трябва да бъдете много внимателни. Защото всеки с валидни идентификационни данни може да влезе в системата и да получи достъп до информацията.

Необходимост от криптиране на парола

Когато потребител зададе своята парола, тя се съхранява в базата данни като обикновен текст. Съхраняването на обикновения текст такъв, какъвто е в базата данни, изобщо не е сигурно. Хакерите могат да пробият системата и да откраднат паролите от базата данни.

За да се гарантира сигурността на паролата на потребителя, тя е криптирана с помощта на различни техники за криптиране. Използвайки различни техники за криптиране, паролата в обикновен текст се съхранява в криптирана форма в базата данни. Има много методи, които могат да се използват за криптиране на паролата. Но хеширането е една от най-популярните техники за криптиране.

Техники за безопасно хеширане на Java

Шифрованата хеш стойност се генерира с помощта на определени алгоритми на паролата с обикновен текст, предоставена от потребителя. Програмирането на Java поддържа няколко техники за хеширане, за да шифрова парола.

Техника за хеширане MD5

MD5 (Съобщение Дайджест) е много популярен алгоритъм за хеширане. Това е криптографска хеш функция, която генерира 128-битова хеш стойност. Този алгоритъм е дефиниран в пакета java.security в програмирането на Java.

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>

Горният код показва изпълнението на MessageDigest клас в java.security пакет. MD5 връща байтов масив, който трябва да бъде преобразуван в четим шестнадесетичен формат.

Техниката за хеширане MD5 е лесна и бърза за прилагане, но също така е предразположена към атаки с груба сила или атаки в речника.

SHA256

SHA е защитен алгоритъм за хеширане. Той използва криптографска функция, която приема 32-битовата парола в обикновен текст и я преобразува в 256-битова хеш стойност с фиксиран размер. Тази хешираща техника се реализира с помощта на класа MessageDiagest на пакета java.security.

Това е еднопосочна техника за криптиране. След като паролата е шифрована, тя не може да бъде декриптирана обратно.

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)>

Горният код използва екземпляра на MessageDigest клас за генериране на хеш SHA256 . SHA256 връща байтов масив, който трябва да бъде преобразуван в четим шестнадесетичен формат. И накрая се показва шифрованата хеш стойност.

SHA512 MD5 Техника за хеширане

SHA512 използва криптографска функция, която приема 64-битовата парола в обикновен текст и я преобразува в 512-битова хеш стойност с фиксиран размер. Тази техника на хеширане също се прилага с помощта на класа MessageDiagest на пакета java.security.

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)>

Горният код използва екземпляра на MessageDigest клас за генериране на хеш SHA512 . SHA512 връща байтов масив, който трябва да бъде преобразуван в четим шестнадесетичен формат. И накрая се показва шифрованата хеш стойност.

Базирано на парола криптиране с помощта на Salt и Base64:

Техниката за криптиране, базирана на парола, използва пароли с обикновен текст и солни стойности, за да генерира хеш стойност. След това хеш стойността се кодира като Base64 низ. Солената стойност съдържа произволни данни, генерирани с помощта на екземпляр на Random клас от пакета java.util.

Следващата програма демонстрира криптиране на пароли с помощта на сол и 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;>

В горния код са дефинирани два класа.

1. Класа PassEncTech4 съдържа кода на драйвера за програмата. Той генерира солна стойност и криптирана парола, използвайки дадената парола в обикновен текст. И ги проверява, като използва стойността, върната от verifyUserPassword()
2. В час PassBasedEnc, Дефинирани са 4 метода. Първият метод е getSaltvalue() който генерира стойността, използвайки случаен клас от util пакет. Тогава хеш () е дефиниран, който има върнат тип масив от байтове. The createSecurePassword() използва обикновена текстова парола и солна стойност с хеш () метод. И накрая, двете пароли се съпоставят с помощта на verifyUserPassword() метод.

Техники за кракване на хеш

Хеш стойността е склонна към различни видове атаки от нападатели. Някои от тях са споменати по-долу,

Атака с груба сила:При атаката с груба сила нападателят изпраща множество комбинации от пароли или пароли с надеждата, че една от комбинациите ще съвпадне и той може да влезе в системата.
За да се избегне този вид атака, паролата трябва да използва комбинация от букви, цифри и символи. Друг начин е да зададете фиксиран брой невалидни опити и след това да поискате човешка проверка като captcha.Речникова атака:Атаката по речник е подобрена версия на атака с груба сила. При тази техника криптираният шифър се опитва да бъде дешифриран с помощта на множество възможности, като думите в речника.Rainbow маси:Техниката е за дъгова таблица, която е предварително изчислена таблица за обръщане на криптографските хеш функции. Дъговите таблици се използват за откриване на пароли с обикновен текст до определена дължина и ограничен брой знаци. Така че използва таблица със страничен цикъл, за да намали използването на хранилището и да увеличи скоростта на атака.