Package org.apache.shiro.authc.credential

package org.apache.shiro.authc.credential

Support for validating credentials (such as passwords or X509 certificates) during authentication via the CredentialsMatcher interface and its supporting implementations.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.apache.shiro.authc	Core interfaces and exceptions concerning Authentication (the act of logging-in).
org.apache.shiro.authc.pam	Support for PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, which is the capability to authenticate a user against multiple configurable (pluggable) modules (Shiro calls these Realms).

Class	Description
AllowAllCredentialsMatcher	A credentials matcher that always returns true when matching credentials no matter what arguments are passed in.
CredentialsMatcher	Interface implemented by classes that can determine if an AuthenticationToken's provided credentials matches a corresponding account's credentials stored in the system.
DefaultPasswordService	Default implementation of the PasswordService interface that relies on an internal HashService, HashFormat, and HashFormatFactory to function:
HashedCredentialsMatcher	A HashedCredentialMatcher provides support for hashing of supplied AuthenticationToken credentials before being compared to those in the AuthenticationInfo from the data store.
HashingPasswordService	A HashingPasswordService is a PasswordService that performs password encryption and comparisons based on cryptographic Hashes.
PasswordMatcher	A CredentialsMatcher that employs best-practices comparisons for hashed text passwords.
PasswordService	A PasswordService supports common use cases when using passwords as a credentials mechanism.
Sha256CredentialsMatcher	Deprecated. since 1.1 - use the HashedCredentialsMatcher directly and set its hashAlgorithmName property.
Sha384CredentialsMatcher	Deprecated. since 1.1 - use the HashedCredentialsMatcher directly and set its hashAlgorithmName property.
Sha512CredentialsMatcher	Deprecated. since 1.1 - use the HashedCredentialsMatcher directly and set its hashAlgorithmName property.
SimpleCredentialsMatcher	Simple CredentialsMatcher implementation.