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Crypt-SHA512 password hasher

Password hashing method using the crypt-sha512 algorithm, To be able to generate password compatible with the crypt-sha512 method avaiable in the standard crypt function since glib2.7 and used on modern linux distros. This provides compatibility with programs and systems that use the glibc crypt library for encrypting passwords (such as shadow passwords used by modern Linux distributions) while providing extra security than the regular crypt-sha1 mechanism (available in Django as CryptPasswordHasher) To use it you just need to add something like this to your django settings file: --- PASSWORD_HASHERS = [ 'utils.hashers.CryptSHA512PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptPasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.SHA1PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.UnsaltedSHA1PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.UnsaltedMD5PasswordHasher', 'django.contrib.auth.hashers.CryptPasswordHasher', ] --- You need to keep the standard hashers on the list to be able to convert existing passwords to the new method. The next time a user login after the modification the password will be converted automatically to first hasher on the list. Thanks mmoreaux for his improvements!!