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Privy is a small and fast utility for password-protecting secret data such as API keys, cryptocurrency wallets, or seeds for digital signatures.

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Say for example you are using GnuPG. You are about to sign a message but it first requires your password. Does your password become the input to unlock your stored private key? No, it is first hashed by a secure key derivation function. That hash then becomes the input to a symmetric cipher such as AES which then decrypts your stored private key. That is what Privy does.

Fear not! With Privy, this become trivially easy:

>>> import privy
>>>
>>> # After creating secret, immediately encrypt it using Privy.
>>> data = b'secret'
>>>
>>> hidden = privy.hide(data, ask_for_password())
>>> hidden
'1$2$fL7xRh8WKe...'

Now you can safely store or transmit the hidden secret. Whenever your user needs to use their secret again, ask for their password to take a peek.

>>> privy.peek(hidden, password)
b'secret'

Privy is available on Linux/macOS and Windows and supports Python 2.7, 3.3+, PyPy, and PyPy3.3-5.5+.

$ pip install privy

Secrets are encrypted using the Fernet protocol. Specifically, it uses AES for encryption and has built-in authentication using HMAC. The private key used for encryption is derived from the password using a key derivation function. The key derivation function used is Argon2, the winner of the Password Hashing Competition. Both Argon2i and Argon2d variants are supported.

ascii(Argon2 algorithm || security level || base64(salt) || base64(Fernet token))

There are 2 functions: hide and peek.

hide(secret, password, security=2, salt=None, server=True)

Encrypts secret using password. Returns the hidden secret as unicode.

  • Parameters
    • secret (bytes) - The secret to encrypt.
    • password (bytes or unicode) - The password used to access the secret.
    • security (int) - A number 0-20 inclusive. Higher values are more secure at the cost of slower computation and greater use of memory. See security levels.
    • salt (bytes) - The salt used for the password hash. Defaults to os.urandom(32).
    • server (bool) - If True, it is assumed side-channel attack protection is needed and therefore the Argon2i algorithm will be used. Otherwise, the password will be hashed using the Argon2d algorithm.

peek(hidden, password, expires=None)

Decrypts hidden using password. Returns the secret as bytes.

  • Parameters
    • hidden (bytes or unicode) - The hidden secret to decrypt.
    • password (bytes or unicode) - The password used to access the secret.
    • expires (int) - The maximum number of seconds since encryption that is allowed. The default is no expiration.

A ValueError will be raised if the password is wrong, the password was attempted on a different hidden secret, or the number of seconds since encryption is > expires argument.

All expected times were taken from tests on an Intel Core i7-2670QM @ 2.2 GHz when decrypting a 256 KiB secret.

This is the command, where SL is the desired security level:

$ python -m timeit -s "import privy, os; pw = 'password'; s = os.urandom(1024 * 256); h = privy.hide(s, pw, SL)" "privy.peek(h, pw)"
Levels Argon2 settings Expected time Notes
0 m=8 KiB, t=1 7 msec Lowest possible
1 m=4 MiB, t=10 54 msec  
2 m=8 MiB, t=10 99 msec Default
3 m=32 MiB, t=10 367 msec  
4 m=48 MiB, t=10 540 msec  
5 m=96 MiB, t=10 1.1 sec Good choice
6 m=256 MiB, t=10 3 sec  
7 m=512 MiB, t=10 6 sec  
8 m=768 MiB, t=10 9 sec  
9 m=1 GiB, t=10 12.2 sec  
10 m=2 GiB, t=20 48 sec For use on users' machines
11 m=3 GiB, t=30 107
12 m=4 GiB, t=40 ?
13 m=5 GiB, t=50 ?
14 m=6 GiB, t=60 ?
15 m=7 GiB, t=70 ?
16 m=8 GiB, t=80 ?
17 m=9 GiB, t=90 ?
18 m=10 GiB, t=100 ?
19 m=11 GiB, t=110 ?
20 m=12 GiB, t=120 ?

Privy is distributed under the terms of either

at your option.

Important changes are emphasized.

  • Breaking: Support for Python 3.3 has been dropped.
  • Breaking: Privy is now dual-licensed under the terms of MIT and Apache v2.0.
  • Only documented methods hide and peek are now exposed in the root namespace.
  • Travis now runs tests with the latest versions of PyPy and PyPy3.
  • Improvements to documentation.
  • Breaking: For saner conformity, security level 7 now utilizes 512 MiB of RAM instead of 448.
  • Major improvements to documentation.
  • Added security levels 11-20. These are quite resource intensive and are therefore only acceptable for individual use.
  • Breaking: Due to requests, the encrypted format now uses url-safe base64 instead of hex.
  • Initial release

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