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PHP Argon2 Password Verify Package

This package provides secure Bcrypt and Argon2 hashing for storing user passwords.

Requirements

1. PHP 7 (7.3 recommended).
2. Composer.

The Argon2i driver requires PHP 7.2.0 or greater and the Argon2id driver requires PHP 7.3.0 or greater.

Bcrypt is a great choice for hashing passwords because its 'work factor' parameter is configurable, which means that the time it takes to generate a hash can be increased as hardware power increases.

Installation

Installing this package is very simple, first ensure you have the right PHP version and composer installed. Then in your command line terminal enter:

composer require lablnet/hashing

Basic Usage

You may create a hash for a password by calling the make method on the Hashing Class:

<?php
 
use Lablnet\Hashing;

require '../vendor/autoload.php';

$hashing = new Hashing();

//Original password
$password = 123456;

//Hash the password
$password_hash = $hashing->make($password);

echo $password_hash;

Adjusting The Argon2 Work Factor

If you are using the Argon2I or Argon2Id algorithm, the make method allows you to manage the work factor of the algorithm using the memory, time, and thread options:

$hashing = new Hashing('argon2i');

$password_hash = $hashing->make($password, [
 'memory' => 1024,
 'time' => 2,
 'threads' => 2,
]);

For more information on these options, check out the official PHP documentation.

Verifying a Password Against a Hash

The verify method allows you to verify that a given plain-text string corresponds to a given hash.

if ($hashing->verify($password,$password_hash)) {
 //The password matched.
}

Checking If A Password Needs To Be Rehashed

The needsRehash function allows you to determine if the work factor used by the hashing has changed since the password was hashed:

if ($hashing->needsRehash($hashed)) {
 $password_hash = $hashing->make($password);
}

Supported Algorithms

This package supports 3 algorithms:

• Bcrypt
• Argon2I
• Argon2ID

To use different algorithms we can use the following code:

$hashing = new Hashing('supported-algorithm');
$bvcryptHashing = new Hashing('bcrypt');

Changing the Default Work Factors

You can provide default work factors like this:

// Argon2

$argon2Hashing = new Hashing('argon2i', [
 'memory' => 1024,
 'time' => 2,
 'threads' => 2,
 'verify' => false,
]);

//Bcrypt

$vcryptHashing = new Hashing('bcrypt'[
 'cost' => 12,
 'verify' => false,
]);

When the verify option is set to true, the class will also verify if the algorithm generated a correct hash for the password.

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