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Bug #62134 Bcrypt Password Hashing ingores last salt character
Submitted: 2012-05-24 08:52 UTC Modified: 2012-07-02 05:26 UTC
From: sebastian dot pleschko at icans-gmbh dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: hash related
PHP Version: 5.3.13 OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2012-05-24 08:52 UTC] sebastian dot pleschko at icans-gmbh dot com
Description:
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The documentation states, that the salt for bcrypt hashing requires 22 
characters. You do actually need to provide 22 Characters, however the last 
character is (partially) ignored and not appended to the salt in the encrypted 
password.

It seems that it is not a complete ingorance, however. Apparently the characters 
a-e produce the same results, as do the characters f-z and A-Z. 

This doesn't seem right.... 



Test script:
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// More than 22 Characters will be trimmed
echo crypt('Test','$2a$09$alongstringwithmanycharacters');
// $2a$09$alongstringwithmanychOw5ylWHc1konZ7sxrgs2HrhMWZdgvW0W


// 21 Characters -> Error
echo crypt('Test','$2a$09$alongstringwithmanych');
// *0

// 22 Characters -> Works, notice how the last char isn't shown in the pw
echo crypt('Test','$2a$09$alongstringwithmanycha');
// $2a$09$alongstringwithmanychOw5ylWHc1konZ7sxrgs2HrhMWZdgvW0W

// 22 Characters -> Different salt, same result! The last char is required but  ignored
echo crypt('Test','$2a$09$alongstringwithmanychb');
// $2a$09$alongstringwithmanychOw5ylWHc1konZ7sxrgs2HrhMWZdgvW0W





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 [2012-07-02 05:12 UTC] smt837784 at yahoo dot com
*** This is not a bug and the status should be changed ***

The salt is a 128 bit value in base64 (using these characters "./A-Za-z0-9" vs "A-Za-z0-9+/") which means the last character in the salt is only 2 bits and is going to be one of the following characters ".Oeu".

So "alongstringwithmanycharacters" is actually "alongstringwithmanychO==" then "==" is removed.
 [2012-07-02 05:26 UTC] rasmus@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2012-07-02 05:26 UTC] rasmus@php.net
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