org.jasypt.util.password

Class StrongPasswordEncryptor

Object

org.jasypt.util.password.StrongPasswordEncryptor

All Implemented Interfaces:

PasswordEncryptor

public final class StrongPasswordEncryptor
extends Object
implements PasswordEncryptor

Utility class for easily performing high-strength password digesting and checking.

This class internally holds a StandardStringDigester configured this way:

• Algorithm: SHA-256.
• Salt size: 16 bytes.
• Iterations: 100000.

The required steps to use it are:

1. Create an instance (using new).
2. Perform the desired encryptPassword(String) or checkPassword(String, String) operations.

This class is thread-safe

Since:

1.2 (class existed in org.jasypt.util package since 1.1)

Author:

Daniel Fernández

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
StrongPasswordEncryptor() Creates a new instance of StrongPasswordEncryptor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	checkPassword(String plainPassword, String encryptedPassword) Checks an unencrypted (plain) password against an encrypted one (a digest) to see if they match.
String	encryptPassword(String password) Encrypts (digests) a password.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

StrongPasswordEncryptor

public StrongPasswordEncryptor()

Creates a new instance of StrongPasswordEncryptor

Method Detail

encryptPassword

public String encryptPassword(String password)

Encrypts (digests) a password.

Specified by:

encryptPassword in interface PasswordEncryptor

Parameters:

password - the password to be encrypted.

Returns:

the resulting digest.

See Also:

StandardStringDigester.digest(String)

checkPassword

public boolean checkPassword(String plainPassword,
                             String encryptedPassword)

Checks an unencrypted (plain) password against an encrypted one (a digest) to see if they match.

Specified by:

checkPassword in interface PasswordEncryptor

Parameters:

plainPassword - the plain password to check.

encryptedPassword - the digest against which to check the password.

Returns:

true if passwords match, false if not.

See Also:

StandardStringDigester.matches(String, String)