Crypter

This is a small library used to encrypt passwords.

com.lobosstudios.crypter.Encrypter.encrypt(String unencrypted, String ourSalt) generates a hash using SHA-512. The encrypted password is prefixed with the string {CRYPT} (for historical reasons that probably won't make sense to anyone except me; I lifted the code from a small library I wrote years ago).

If you are generating a hash from a plaintext password, ourSalt must be null. The salt is only specified when you are verifying a password.

com.lobosstudios.crypter.Encrypter.verify(String encrypted, String passwordToVerify) returns true if the encrypted hash matches the unencrypted password. The passwords are compared this way:

• The salt is extract from the encrypted password.
• encrypt() is called, passing the plaintext password and the salt.
• Given the same salt and the same plaintext password, encrypt() will return the same string we passed in. If the string we generate is identical to encrypted, we return true; otherwise we return false.

CLI

java -jar crypter-VERSION-all.jar [ -v | --verify]

Allows you to generate a password, and copies the encrypted password to the clipboard, unless -v or --verify is specified, in which case you are prompted for the encrypted password, then you are prompted for a plaintext password, and the two are compared; you are told either that they match, or they don't match.

If -v or --verify is specified, the option must come AFTER -jar.

Dependencies

Crypter's only dependency is on the Apache Commons Codec library.

Maven Coordinates

Crypter is hosted in Lobos Studios' java-dev repository.

To use the repo with Gradle:

repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url "https://repos.lobosstudios.com/repository/java-dev/"
}
}
dependencies {
implementation "com.lobosstudios:crypter:[VERSION]"
}

To use it with Maven:

 <repositories>
<repository>
<id>lobosstudios-nexus-java-dev</id>
<name>Lobos Studios java-dev</name>
<url>https://repos.lobosstudios.com/repository/java-dev/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lobosstudios</groupId>
<artifactId>crypter</artifactId>
<version>[VERSION]</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

repos.lobosstudios.com is hosted on a Sonatype Nexus server. Repos hosted on Nexus require the slash at the end of the URL. Don't forget it!