Install

pass-hasher installation is possible from npm

npm install pass-hasher --save --save-exat

Introduction

The pass-hasher is a little and simple package which used the bcrypt package for create salt and hashing the password. The pass-hasher in another side add the random generated pepper on user password for to be more secured.

How to use

pass-hasher is have three simple methods.

const passHasher = require('pass-hasher')

// for beggining is possible to set how many salt rounds to have (by default = 14)

let securityStuff = passHasher.generateKeys('username', 'password')
// passHasher.generateKeys is return the object with hash and salt parameters
// {
// salt: '$2a$14$YW9hTocIftJFw.P1Bshlee',
// hash: '$2a$14$YW9hTocIftJFw.P1BshleeVDS8Rzjk6fGXMSOFXIyUKknIt/y0DyO'
// }


let salt = 'some salt from password db' // get salt from password db
// return hashing string for current password
let hash = passHasher.checkPassword('username', 'password', salt)

let hash = 'some hash from password db' // get hash from password db
// return boolean variable do can user authenticate with that password and username
let isAuthenticated = passHasher.checkPassword('username', 'password', salt, hash)