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Spring Security - Third Edition

By : Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH
Book Image

Spring Security - Third Edition

By: Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH

Overview of this book

Knowing that experienced hackers are itching to test your skills makes security one of the most difficult and high-pressured concerns of creating an application. The complexity of properly securing an application is compounded when you must also integrate this factor with existing code, new technologies, and other frameworks. Use this book to easily secure your Java application with the tried and trusted Spring Security framework, a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. The book starts by integrating a variety of authentication mechanisms. It then demonstrates how to properly restrict access to your application. It also covers tips on integrating with some of the more popular web frameworks. An example of how Spring Security defends against session fixation, moves into concurrency control, and how you can utilize session management for administrative functions is also included. It concludes with advanced security scenarios for RESTful webservices and microservices, detailing the issues surrounding stateless authentication, and demonstrates a concise, step-by-step approach to solving those issues. And, by the end of the book, readers can rest assured that integrating version 4.2 of Spring Security will be a seamless endeavor from start to finish.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Trying out the salted passwords

Start up the application and try creating another user with the password user1. Use the H2 console to compare the new user's password, and observe that they are different.

Your code should now look like this: calendar04.05-calendar.

Spring Security now generates a random salt and combines this with the password before hashing our password. It then adds the random salt to the beginning of the password in plaintext, so that passwords can be checked. The stored password can be summarized as follows:

    salt = randomsalt()
hash = hash(salt+originalPassword)
storedPassword = salt + hash

This is the pseudocode for hashing a newly created password.

To authenticate a user, salt and hash can be extracted from the stored password, since both salt and hash are fixed lengths. Then, the extracted hash can be compared against a new hash, computed...