org.xwiki.contrib.authentication.jdbc
Interface PasswordHasher

@Role
public interface PasswordHasher

Interface for all password hashing objects (e.g. salted SHA1, PBKDF2, etc.).

Author:

Petr Praus

Method Summary

String	create(String password)
boolean	verify(String dbPassword, String suppliedPassword)

Method Detail

verify

boolean verify(String dbPassword,
               String suppliedPassword)

Parameters:

suppliedPassword - Password harvested from the user (plaintext)

dbPassword - User's hashed password+params from the database, possible

Returns:

true if hash of suppliedPassword matches the password from the database

create

String create(String password)

Parameters:

password - to be hashed

Returns:

hashed password