Important
Please note that this repository is hold for the references purposes. Forgiva evolved into Forgiva Enterprise and became fully open-source. Please refer to Forgiva Integrator repository for more information.
Overview
Forgiva is a brand new password managing idea. It's developed by security professionals to maintain and protect passwords far more better than any other commercial solution available on the market.
- It never stores your passwords anywhere! There is nothing to crack.
- Resistant to key-loggers.
- Combines various hashing and encryption algorithms depending on your master-key. Thus makes very difficult to estimate an effective brute-force and/or dictionary attack.
- You can choose complexity depending on your paranoia level.
Installation
$ gem install forgivaUsage
Just type forgiva on the command line to run, and pick any password depending
on your favourite animal.
$ forgiva
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Hostname: abc.com
Account: superuser
Master password:
Master password (again):
Generating...
Ape 0en8*qxxbTopbKD_
Bat OJJ6+wv6*bx2wscf
Bear tFOAx/@aYd@a8zDG
Whale l/RiCiHlKz_c3+Xt
Crow 0d4nXlk7mx,6g16H
Dog xdYhK.Tr,O,wSXBb
Duck tTGbDlVWdDJv!3Pj
Cat +kEWip3mU_6DhWkz
Wasp SGAl789+hsdoM_qD
Fox X0wxIXc_KdGC1z9t
Gull vnkEml-27mJJ1DmC
Hyena scpcqlNhTdpjbn.7
Lion TiMrSkoCjOj5wQ-+
Panda iDJ+fkJDiv,8y+-h
Rat map_sqAjAucsDsPh
Shark n1*-a4.BzPbAugUP
Spider Iuw6T%4qDVQyRiZh
Turtle PndQxbYFm0%HsCNf
Wolf Q%eLIONHqscny7on
Zebra VQRD!27jVnVSpC.E
Command line options:
forgiva [-h HOST] [-a ACCOUNT-ID] [-l LENGTH] [-s] [-c [1-3]] [-e] [OPTION...]
Help Options:
-?, --help Show help options
Application Options:
-h, --host-name=HOST Host/Web Site/Domain name (e.g.: facebook.com)
-a, --account=ACCOUNT-ID Account id to log-in to host such as such as e-mail address or nick-name etc.
-r, --renewal-date=DATE Date for passwords to generate
-l, --length=LENGTH Password length (Default: 16)
-s, --save-credentials Save host name and account to local database to remember next time
-c, --complexity=C_LEVEL 0-3 complexity level of password generation. (Default: 0)
-e, --select-credentials Select host and account info from saved list of credentials. If just host or account specified then you get filtered credentials.
-t, --test Runs core tests for the algorithm
-p, --scrypt Use scrypt algorithm to strengthen algorithm
Release notes
- 1.0.1.3 and 1.0.1.4
- Added scrypt support with -p/--scrypt option
- Fixed various parameter parsing bugs
Algorithm
(Note: After 1.0.1.4 version, SCrypt support added)
Forgiva uses following digest and encryption algorithm to complex password generation phases:
for encryption;
des-ede3-cbc camellia-128-cbc camellia-192-cbc camellia-256-cbc cast5-cbc bf-cbc aes-128-cbc aes-192-cbc aes-256-cbc
for hashing;
sha512 sha384 sha256 sha224 sha1 sha md5 md4 ripemd160
Depending on data provided by the user Forgiva may or may not use all the encryption and hashing algorithms in an password re-generation process.
Algorithm uses 4 key data to generate password(s);
- Host (ex. google.com/facebook.com/192.168.0.1 etc.)
- Account (ex. root/abc@mail.com etc.)
- Renewal date
- Master key (SHA512 hash value of user entered key)
Basic Algorithms
A. Hashing
Forgiva generates hashes by keeping key-space stable. n-bits of data gets hashed to n-bits of data by dividing data into hash-size.
algorithm forgiva-hashing
Input: Value to get hashed as DATA, Hashing algorithm HALG
Output: Hashed input data
if HALG.hash-size < data-size
start_index = 0
end_index = HALG.hash-size
while start_index < DATA size
input_block = DATA content from start_index to end_index
output_block = HALG.hash(input_block)
result = result appended output_block
start_index = end_index
end_index = start_index + HALG.hash-size
return result with the same size of DATA
else
return ALG.hash(DATA)
B. Iterative Hashing
Resembles hashing a value with various algorithms which are chosen by the characters of the value. Before getting into algorithm it must be understood that hashing algorithms are contained in an array and gets chosen by index number of it.
algorithm forgiva-iterative-hashing
Input: Value to hashed as DATA, Algorithm array AARRAY
Ouput: Hashed input data
final_value = DATA
for each character C in DATA
algorithm = AARRAY index of (C code num modulus AARRAY)
final_value = forgiva-hash(final_value, algorithm)
return final_value
C. Encrypting
Encryption process with Forgiva is totally same with the algorithms except;
- Data block sizes gets fit into algorithm block sizes by padding zeroes or shortening.
- Encryption key gets put into PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 algorithm with 10_000 iteration and initialization vector (IV) is set as 'SHA512' value of encryption key.
D. Iterative Encryption
It's totaly same iteration-method used iterative hashing by using encryption algorithm array. As a different approach there is two input data and one will be used data to get encrypted and the other one will be used as key.
algorithm forgiva-iterative-encryption
Input: Value to get encrypted as DATA, Value to used in encryption as DATA2, Algorithm array AARRAY
Ouput: Encrypted input data
final_value = DATA
for each character C in DATA
algorithm = AARRAY index of (C code num modulus AARRAY size)
final_value = forgiva-encrypt(algorithm,final_value,DATA2)
return final_value
Password generation process
1. Iterative hashing
Host, Account, Renewal Date and Master key gets into forgiva-iterative-hashing algorithm twice.
Output: Hashed Host -> HHOST
Hashed Account -> HACCOUNT
Hashed Renewal Date -> HRDATE
Hashed Master Key -> HMKEY
2. Iterative encryption
Hashed datas gets into forgiva-iterative-encryption process as pairs and finally whole encryption phase reduces into one result.
algorithm forgiva-encrypted-inputs
Input: Hashed Host as HHOST, Hashed Account HACCOUNT, Hashed Renewal Date HRDATE, Hashed Master Key as HMKEY
Output: Encrypted result as DATA
first_pair_pre = forgiva-iterative-encryption(HHOST, HACCOUNT)
first_pair = forgiva-iterative-encryption(first_pair_pre, HMKEY)
second_pair = forgiva-iterative-encryption(HRDATE,HMKEY)
return forgiva-iterative-encryption(first_pair,second_pair)
3. Password derivation
Forgiva uses PBKDF2-HMAC as base of the key-derivation family and uses forgiva-encypted-inputs as salt mechanism.
Depending on choices of the complexity it uses SHA1 (Normal),SHA256 (Intermediate) and SHA512 (Advanced) hashing algorithms.
Note: After 1.0.1.4 Algorithm; SCrypt support added
algorithm key-derivation
Input: forgiva-encrypted-inputs as SALT, SHA512 value of master key as KEY
Output: Array of password sized of animal count
hash = KEY
if scrypt_required
hash = scrypt(hash,SALT,131072,8,1) // n = 2^7 , p=8, r=1
for each Animal
hash = PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1(hash,SALT, 10.000 iterationg with 32 bit key expectation)
password = forgiva-hash-to-password(hash)
push password to return animal array
3.1. Hash to password conversion
Due to choice of complexity Forgiva uses different character-ranges to generate a good password by using hashes.
algorithm hash-to-password
Input: Hashed value as DATA, characters which will be used in password as CHARACTER_ARRAY
Output: 512 bit of data as KEY
temporary_hash = SHA512(DATA)
for each character C in temporary_hash
password += CHARACTER_ARRAY index of (C code num modulus CHARACTER_ARRAY size)
return password
Intellectual Property
Except for the components mentioned within their own copyright restrictions, the Forgiva code in this repository is copyright (c) 2016 Sceptive and under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
References
[1] PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.0