From 1df93ff60c7a7ec87ff898939b3cd016c6416f3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: malteheckelen <malteheckelen@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:35:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added salting function and a read function for an external
 list of salts

---
 auth.py | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/auth.py b/auth.py
index 576f974..1ce83a7 100644
--- a/auth.py
+++ b/auth.py
@@ -7,11 +7,27 @@ def get_credentials():
     password = getpass.getpass('Enter your password: ')
     return username, hash_string(password)
 
+def salt_string(inputstring, salts, pwdb):
+    for salt in salts:
+        if ''.join(inputstring, salt) in pwdb.Values.ToList():
+            continue
+        else:
+            salted_pw = ''.join(inputstring, salt)
+            salt_index = salts.index(salt)
+            return salted_pw, salt_index
+
 def hash_string(inputstring):
     # hash the string
     hashed_password = sum(ord(char) for char in inputstring) 
-    return hashed_password
     
+    return hashed_password
+
+def get_salts(filename):
+    # maybe reading it from an environment variable would be better
+    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
+        salts = f.read()
+    f.close()   
+
 def authenticate(username, password, pwdb):
     if username in pwdb:
         if password == pwdb[username]: