library blowfish

mindplay/blowfish

Wrapper around the Blowfish algorithm (for use in password encryption, etc.)

mindplay/blowfish

, _(*1)

I want Blowfish password encryption, which is currently the best available., _(*2)

I also want:, _(*3)

• Strong, fast entropy: mcrypt when available, fall back to dev/urandom or mt_rand()
• Variable cost: prioritize speed vs cipher strength depending on your needs
• Ease of use and a small, simple dependency

I do not want a large, complicated password encryption framework - I feel quite comfortable having a hard dependency on a public API consisting of two methods:, _(*4)

public function hash($value): string;
public function check($value, $hash): bool;

Replacing this with something else in the future would be trivial., _(*5)

You need php version 5.3.7 or newer for working Blowfish implementation - prior versions had a broken Blowfish implementation., _(*6)

Usage

Trivial:, _(*7)

    $service = new BlowfishService();

    $password = '$up3rS3c3tp@55w0rD';

    $hash = $service->hash($password); // encrypt the password

    $is_valid = $service->check($password, $hash); // check the password