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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-10-18 09:09:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Florian Apolloner <florian@apolloner.eu> | 2013-10-21 20:32:02 +0200 |
| commit | 28b70425afb2fb8bcbec09d249e37fa786f8a155 (patch) | |
| tree | 4991dcd2fe3bbd4276ca3a781e95b7c9b58c8c3e /docs/topics | |
| parent | 7d0d0dbf26a3c0d16e9c2b930fd6d7b89f215946 (diff) | |
Added docs for the hasher's iteration count changes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt index 7e4b59a99c..12b11822e1 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt @@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ algorithm. output)``. For example: ``bcrypt$$2a$12$NT0I31Sa7ihGEWpka9ASYrEFkhuTNeBQ2xfZskIiiJeyFXhRgS.Sy``. +.. _increasing-password-algorithm-work-factor: + Increasing the work factor -------------------------- @@ -167,6 +169,8 @@ default PBKDF2 algorithm: That's it -- now your Django install will use more iterations when it stores passwords using PBKDF2. +.. _password-upgrades: + Password upgrading ------------------ @@ -181,6 +185,10 @@ However, Django can only upgrade passwords that use algorithms mentioned in sure never to *remove* entries from this list. If you do, users using un- mentioned algorithms won't be able to upgrade. +.. versionadded:: 1.6 + + Passwords will be upgraded when changing the PBKDF2 iteration count. + .. _sha1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA1 .. _pbkdf2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 .. _nist: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-132/nist-sp800-132.pdf |