Securely storing passwords for use in python script

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I need to securely store a username and password in Python, what are my options?

I am looking for a way to securely store passwords which I intend to use in some Python scripting. I will be logging into different things and I don't want to store the passwords as plaintext in the script itself.

Instead I was wondering if there is anything which is able to securely store those passwords and then retrieve them using something like a master password which I could enter to the script at the beginning.

Answer 1

Know the master key yourself. Don't hard code it.

Use py-bcrypt (bcrypt), powerful hashing technique to generate a password yourself.

Basically you can do this (an idea...)

import bcrypt
from getpass import getpass
master_secret_key = getpass('tell me the master secret key you are going to use')
salt = bcrypt.gensalt()
combo_password = raw_password + salt + master_secret_key
hashed_password = bcrypt.hashpw(combo_password, salt)

save salt and hashed password somewhere so whenever you need to use the password, you are reading the encrypted password, and test against the raw password you are entering again.

This is basically how login should work these days.