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-rw-r--r--passlib/utils/pbkdf2.py12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/passlib/utils/pbkdf2.py b/passlib/utils/pbkdf2.py
index ad6f087..460925c 100644
--- a/passlib/utils/pbkdf2.py
+++ b/passlib/utils/pbkdf2.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ if _EVP:
#backend
#=================================================================================
MAX_BLOCKS = 0xffffffffL #2**32-1
+MAX_HMAC_SHA1_KEYLEN = MAX_BLOCKS*20
def _resolve_prf(prf):
"resolve prf string or callable -> func & digest_size"
@@ -134,10 +135,15 @@ def pbkdf2(secret, salt, rounds, keylen, prf="hmac-sha1"):
#special case for m2crypto + hmac-sha1
if prf == "hmac-sha1" and _EVP:
- try:
- return _EVP.pbkdf2(secret, salt, rounds, keylen)
- except OverflowError:
+ #NOTE: doing check here, because M2crypto won't take longs (which this is, under 32bit)
+ if keylen > MAX_HMAC_SHA1_KEYLEN:
raise ValueError, "key length too long"
+
+ #NOTE: M2crypto reliably segfaults for me if given keylengths
+ # larger than 40 (crashes at 41 on one system, 61 on another).
+ # so just avoiding it for longer calls.
+ if keylen < 41:
+ return _EVP.pbkdf2(secret, salt, rounds, keylen)
#resolve prf
encode_block, digest_size = _resolve_prf(prf)