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lebaudantoine 0450c74f53 ⚡️(backend) hash application secrets with SHA-256
Application token authentication currently uses Django's default
password hasher. On our production hardware, token requests take
at least ~500 ms. Authentication happens per user of each
application, so this cost accumulates across frequently used
integrations.

Password hashers deliberately make guessing expensive to protect
human-chosen passwords after a database leak. Our application
secrets are generated server-side using a cryptographically secure
random generator, with a default length of 128 alphanumeric
characters. Guessing these secrets is already computationally
infeasible, making password stretching an unnecessary CPU cost.

Use salted SHA-256 for application secrets while retaining
constant-time comparison, and keep user password hashing
unchanged. Existing secrets migrate after successful verification
without requiring key rotation. Conditional updates prevent
migration from overwriting a concurrent rotation.

Store the new hash in `client_secret_sha256` while preserving the
original Django hash in `client_secret`. New applications populate
both fields, allowing the previous release to authenticate both
existing and newly created applications if we need to roll back.

Once every application has migrated and the rollback window has
closed, complete the migration by removing the legacy verification
code and `client_secret` field.

This assumes securely generated, high-entropy secrets. Deployments
that reduce `APPLICATION_CLIENT_SECRET_LENGTH` or supply
predictable secrets lose the offline guessing protection that the
previous slow hasher provided.
2026-10-07 18:09:30 +02:00

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"""
Core application fields
"""
from logging import getLogger
from django.contrib.auth.hashers import identify_hasher, make_password
from django.db import models
from .hashers import CLIENT_SECRET_HASH_PATTERN
logger = getLogger(__name__)
class SecretField(models.CharField):
"""CharField that automatically hashes secrets before saving.
Use for API keys, client secrets, or tokens that should never be stored
in plain text. Already-hashed values are preserved to prevent double-hashing.
Inspired by: https://github.com/django-oauth-toolkit/django-oauth-toolkit
"""
def pre_save(self, model_instance, add):
"""Hash the secret if not already hashed, otherwise preserve it."""
secret = getattr(model_instance, self.attname)
if CLIENT_SECRET_HASH_PATTERN.fullmatch(secret):
logger.debug(
"%s: %s is already hashed with sha256.",
model_instance,
self.attname,
)
return secret
try:
hasher = identify_hasher(secret)
logger.debug(
"%s: %s is already hashed with %s.",
model_instance,
self.attname,
hasher,
)
except ValueError:
logger.debug(
"%s: %s is not hashed; hashing it now.", model_instance, self.attname
)
hashed_secret = make_password(secret)
setattr(model_instance, self.attname, hashed_secret)
return hashed_secret
return super().pre_save(model_instance, add)