Documentation for Argon2 Feature¶ ↑

The argon2 feature adds the ability to replace the bcrypt password hash algorithm with argon2 (specifically, argon2id). Argon2 is an alternative to bcrypt that offers the ability to be memory-hard. However, argon2 is weaker than bcrypt for interactive login environments (e.g. password check times under a second), so for the vast majority of web applications, using the argon2 feature will weaken the application’s security. You should not use the argon2 feature unless the usage of argon2 is required or you are a cryptographer and understand why argon2 would be better than bcrypt for your application.

If you are using this feature with Rodauth’s database authentication functions, you need to make sure that the database authentication functions are configured to support argon2 in addition to bcrypt. You can do this by passing the :argon2 option when calling the method to define the database functions. In this example, DB should be your Sequel::Database object:

require 'rodauth/migrations'

# If the functions are already defined and you are not using PostgreSQL,
# you need to drop the existing functions.
Rodauth.drop_database_authentication_functions(DB)

# If you are using the disallow_password_reuse feature, also drop the
# database functions related to that if not using PostgreSQL:
Rodauth.drop_database_previous_password_check_functions(DB)

# Define new functions that support argon2:
Rodauth.create_database_authentication_functions(DB, argon2: true)

# If you are using the disallow_password_reuse feature, also define
# new functions that support argon2 for that:
Rodauth.create_database_previous_password_check_functions(DB, argon2: true)

The argon2 feature provides the ability to allow for a gradual migration from transitioning from bcrypt to argon2 and vice-versa, if you are using the update_password_hash feature.

Argon2 is more configurable than bcrypt in terms of password hash cost speficiation. Instead of specifying the password_hash_cost value as an integer, you must specify the password hash cost as a hash, such as ({t_cost: 2, m_cost: 16}).

If you are using the argon2 feature and if you have no bcrypt passwords in your database, you should use require_bcrypt? false in your Rodauth configuration to prevent loading the bcrypt library, which will save memory.

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