Python SHA512encryption with PHP

Question

This is the first time I am trying to deal with a python code. My client has recently gave me a python code:

python -c 'import crypt; print crypt.crypt("Pa55w0rd!", "$6$x88yEvVg")'

Which is used to encrypt the password, in the above code.

The password is Pa55w0rd! and the salt value is x88yEvVg . Can I execute the above code in PHP? I have tried doing this:

echo exec(`python -c "import crypt;print crypt.crypt('Pa55w0rd!', '\$6\$x88yEvVg\')"`);

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use popen or proc_open.

For example:

$password = 'Pa55w0rd!';
$salt = '$6$x88yEvVg';
$handle = popen('python -c \'import crypt; print crypt.crypt("' . $password . '", "' . $salt . '")\'', 'r');
$text = fread($handle, 100);
echo $text;
pclose($handle);

Answer 2

Do you absolutely need to encrypt using python? Depending on your PHP version you could do this for PHP >= 5.3:

openssl_digest("Pa55w0rd!"."$6$x88yEvVg", "sha512");

and this for PHP 5.2 or 5.1

hash("sha512", "Pa55w0rd!"."$6$x88yEvVg");

This assumes that your salt value is just being concatenated with your password value.