bcrypt
is a hashing algorithm which is scalable with hardware (via a configurable number of rounds). Its slowness and multiple rounds ensures that an attacker must deploy massive funds and hardware to be able to crack your passwords. Add to that per-password salts (bcrypt
REQUIRES salts) and you can be sure that an attack is virtually unfeasible without either ludicrous amount of funds or hardware.
bcrypt
uses the Eksblowfish algorithm to hash passwords. While the encryption phase of Eksblowfish and Blowfish are exactly the same, the key schedule phase of Eksblowfish ensures that any subsequent state depends on both salt and key (user password), and no state can be precomputed without the knowledge of both. Because of this key difference, bcrypt
is a one-way hashing algorithm. You cannot retrieve the plain text password without already knowing the salt, rounds and key (password). [Source]
How to use bcrypt:
Using PHP >= 5.5-DEV
Password hashing functions have now been built directly into PHP >= 5.5. You may now use password_hash()
to create a bcrypt
hash of any password:
<?php
// Usage 1:
echo password_hash('rasmuslerdorf', PASSWORD_DEFAULT)."\n";
// $2y$10$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
// For example:
// $2y$10$.vGA1O9wmRjrwAVXD98HNOgsNpDczlqm3Jq7KnEd1rVAGv3Fykk1a
// Usage 2:
$options = [
'cost' => 11
];
echo password_hash('rasmuslerdorf', PASSWORD_BCRYPT, $options)."\n";
// $2y$11$6DP.V0nO7YI3iSki4qog6OQI5eiO6Jnjsqg7vdnb.JgGIsxniOn4C
To verify a user provided password against an existing hash, you may use the password_verify()
as such:
<?php
// See the password_hash() example to see where this came from.
$hash = '$2y$07$BCryptRequires22Chrcte/VlQH0piJtjXl.0t1XkA8pw9dMXTpOq';
if (password_verify('rasmuslerdorf', $hash)) {
echo 'Password is valid!';
} else {
echo 'Invalid password.';
}
Using PHP >= 5.3.7, < 5.5-DEV (also RedHat PHP >= 5.3.3)
There is a compatibility library on GitHub created based on the source code of the above functions originally written in C, which provides the same functionality. Once the compatibility library is installed, usage is the same as above (minus the shorthand array notation if you are still on the 5.3.x branch).
Using PHP < 5.3.7 (DEPRECATED)
You can use crypt()
function to generate bcrypt hashes of input strings. This class can automatically generate salts and verify existing hashes against an input. If you are using a version of PHP higher or equal to 5.3.7, it is highly recommended you use the built-in function or the compat library. This alternative is provided only for historical purposes.
class Bcrypt{
private $rounds;
public function __construct($rounds = 12) {
if (CRYPT_BLOWFISH != 1) {
throw new Exception("bcrypt not supported in this installation. See http://php.net/crypt");
}
$this->rounds = $rounds;
}
public function hash($input){
$hash = crypt($input, $this->getSalt());
if (strlen($hash) > 13)
return $hash;
return false;
}
public function verify($input, $existingHash){
$hash = crypt($input, $existingHash);
return $hash === $existingHash;
}
private function getSalt(){
$salt = sprintf('$2a$%02d$', $this->rounds);
$bytes = $this->getRandomBytes(16);
$salt .= $this->encodeBytes($bytes);
return $salt;
}
private $randomState;
private function getRandomBytes($count){
$bytes = '';
if (function_exists('openssl_random_pseudo_bytes') &&
(strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) !== 'WIN')) { // OpenSSL is slow on Windows
$bytes = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($count);
}
if ($bytes === '' && is_readable('/dev/urandom') &&
($hRand = @fopen('/dev/urandom', 'rb')) !== FALSE) {
$bytes = fread($hRand, $count);
fclose($hRand);
}
if (strlen($bytes) < $count) {
$bytes = '';
if ($this->randomState === null) {
$this->randomState = microtime();
if (function_exists('getmypid')) {
$this->randomState .= getmypid();
}
}
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i += 16) {
$this->randomState = md5(microtime() . $this->randomState);
if (PHP_VERSION >= '5') {
$bytes .= md5($this->randomState, true);
} else {
$bytes .= pack('H*', md5($this->randomState));
}
}
$bytes = substr($bytes, 0, $count);
}
return $bytes;
}
private function encodeBytes($input){
// The following is code from the PHP Password Hashing Framework
$itoa64 = './ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';
$output = '';
$i = 0;
do {
$c1 = ord($input[$i++]);
$output .= $itoa64[$c1 >> 2];
$c1 = ($c1 & 0x03) << 4;
if ($i >= 16) {
$output .= $itoa64[$c1];
break;
}
$c2 = ord($input[$i++]);
$c1 |= $c2 >> 4;
$output .= $itoa64[$c1];
$c1 = ($c2 & 0x0f) << 2;
$c2 = ord($input[$i++]);
$c1 |= $c2 >> 6;
$output .= $itoa64[$c1];
$output .= $itoa64[$c2 & 0x3f];
} while (true);
return $output;
}
}
You can use this code like this:
$bcrypt = new Bcrypt(15);
$hash = $bcrypt->hash('password');
$isGood = $bcrypt->verify('password', $hash);
Alternatively, you may also use the Portable PHP Hashing Framework.
I'm also in a "trial and error" for that, but this answer from Google Chrome Labs' Github helped me a little. I defined it into my main file and it worked - well, for only one third-party domain. Still making tests, but I'm eager to update this answer with a better solution :)
EDIT: I'm using PHP 7.4 now, and this syntax is working good (Sept 2020):
$cookie_options = array(
'expires' => time() + 60*60*24*30,
'path' => '/',
'domain' => '.domain.com', // leading dot for compatibility or use subdomain
'secure' => true, // or false
'httponly' => false, // or false
'samesite' => 'None' // None || Lax || Strict
);
setcookie('cors-cookie', 'my-site-cookie', $cookie_options);
If you have PHP 7.2 or lower (as Robert's answered below):
setcookie('key', 'value', time()+(7*24*3600), "/; SameSite=None; Secure");
If your host is already updated to PHP 7.3, you can use (thanks to Mahn's comment):
setcookie('cookieName', 'cookieValue', [
'expires' => time()+(7*24*3600,
'path' => '/',
'domain' => 'domain.com',
'samesite' => 'None',
'secure' => true,
'httponly' => true
]);
Another thing you can try to check the cookies, is to enable the flag below, which—in their own words—"will add console warning messages for every single cookie potentially affected by this change":
chrome://flags/#cookie-deprecation-messages
See the whole code at: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/samesite-examples/blob/master/php.md, they have the code for same-site-cookies
too.
Best Answer
You can set the value to "None" using
ini_set
. There's no check that the value is supported when that function is used:session_set_cookie_params
can also set it:The bug report for this to be supported in php.ini is here.
As @shrimpwagon said in a comment below,
session.cookie_secure
must betrue
for this to work. PHP doesn't require it, but browsers do.