noma/rpcauth.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Copyright (c) 2015-2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

from argparse import ArgumentParser
from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode
from binascii import hexlify
from getpass import getpass
from os import urandom

import hmac


def generate_salt(size):
    """Create size byte hex salt"""
    return hexlify(urandom(size)).decode()


def generate_password():
    """Create 32 byte b64 password"""
    return urlsafe_b64encode(urandom(32)).decode("utf-8")


def password_to_hmac(salt, password):
    m = hmac.new(
        bytearray(salt, "utf-8"), bytearray(password, "utf-8"), "SHA256"
    )
    return m.hexdigest()


def main():
    parser = ArgumentParser(
        description="Create login credentials for a JSON-RPC user"
    )
    parser.add_argument("username", help="the username for authentication")
    parser.add_argument(
        "password",
        help='leave empty to generate a random password or specify "-" to prompt for password',
        nargs="?",
    )
    args = parser.parse_args()

    if not args.password:
        args.password = generate_password()
    elif args.password == "-":
        args.password = getpass()

    # Create 16 byte hex salt
    salt = generate_salt(16)
    password_hmac = password_to_hmac(salt, args.password)

    print("String to be appended to bitcoin.conf:")
    print("rpcauth={0}:{1}${2}".format(args.username, salt, password_hmac))
    print("Your password:\n{0}".format(args.password))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()