hashwrapper

Provides a wrapper around hashing methods hashlib

External packages used

For Tests: nose

Installation

Install with using pip Pypi Link

$ pip install hashwrapper

Usage

Import

To use the hashing function, import the module:

from hashwrapper.hashwrapper import hashwrapper
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objGetHash = hashwrapper.HashWrapper()
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Generate a hash

To get a hash and the salt value:

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resultHash = objGetHash.generateHash(string_to_hash, hash_alg_to_use_for_current_cycle)
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Default hash algorithm

To check the default hash function setting in the configuration:

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default_hash_in_config = objGetHash.getDefaultHashAlgorithm()
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Default salt|IV generator

To check the default salt generation function setting in the configuration:

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default_salt_in_config = objGetHash.getDefaultSaltGenerator()
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