Encrypt passwords stored in Redis

Using symmetric encryption in the `cryptography`'s `Fernet` class,
we can ensure that no one can snoop the passwords simply by having access
to the Redis store.

An encryption key is sent to the secret receiver, along with the 32 character
Redis key that identifies the secret, which is needed to decrypt the password.

requirements.txt

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ MarkupSafe==0.18
 Werkzeug==0.9.4
 itsdangerous==0.23
 redis==2.8.0
+cryptography==1.8.1

snappass/main.py

@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ from redis.exceptions import ConnectionError
 
 from flask import abort, Flask, render_template, request
 
+from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
+
 
 SNEAKY_USER_AGENTS = ('Slackbot', 'facebookexternalhit', 'Twitterbot',
                       'Facebot', 'WhatsApp', 'SkypeUriPreview')
 SNEAKY_USER_AGENTS_RE = re.compile('|'.join(SNEAKY_USER_AGENTS))
 NO_SSL = os.environ.get('NO_SSL', False)
+TOKEN_SEPARATOR = '~'
 
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
@@ -49,20 +52,72 @@ def check_redis_alive(fn):
     return inner
 
 
+def encrypt(password):
+    """
+    Take a password string, encrypt it with Fernet symmetric encryption,
+    and return the result (bytes), with the decryption key (bytes)
+    """
+    encryption_key = Fernet.generate_key()
+    fernet = Fernet(encryption_key)
+    encrypted_password = fernet.encrypt(password.encode('utf-8'))
+    return encrypted_password, encryption_key
+
+
+def decrypt(password, decryption_key):
+    """
+    Decrypt a password (bytes) using the provided key (bytes),
+    and return the plain-text password (bytes).
+    """
+    fernet = Fernet(decryption_key)
+    return fernet.decrypt(password)
+
+
+def parse_token(token):
+    token_fragments = token.split(TOKEN_SEPARATOR, 1)  # Split once, not more.
+    storage_key = token_fragments[0]
+
+    try:
+        decryption_key = token_fragments[1].encode('utf-8')
+    except IndexError:
+        decryption_key = None
+
+    return storage_key, decryption_key
+
+
 @check_redis_alive
 def set_password(password, ttl):
-    key = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    """
-    redis_client.setex(key, ttl, password)
+    Encrypt and store the password for the specified lifetime.
-    return key
+
+    Returns a token comprised of the key where the encrypted password
+    is stored, and the decryption key.
+    """
+    storage_key = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    encrypted_password, encryption_key = encrypt(password)
+    redis_client.setex(storage_key, ttl, encrypted_password)
+    encryption_key = encryption_key.decode('utf-8')
+    token = TOKEN_SEPARATOR.join([storage_key, encryption_key])
+    return token
 
 
 @check_redis_alive
-def get_password(key):
+def get_password(token):
-    password = redis_client.get(key)
+    """
+    From a given token, return the initial password.
+
+    If the token is tilde-separated, we decrypt the password fetched from Redis.
+    If not, the password is simply returned as is.
+    """
+    storage_key, decryption_key = parse_token(token)
+    password = redis_client.get(storage_key)
+    redis_client.delete(storage_key)
+
     if password is not None:
-        password = password.decode('utf-8')
+
-    redis_client.delete(key)
+        if decryption_key is not None:
-    return password
+            password = decrypt(password, decryption_key)
+
+        return password.decode('utf-8')
 
 
 def empty(value):
@@ -104,13 +159,13 @@ def index():
 @app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
 def handle_password():
     ttl, password = clean_input()
-    key = set_password(password, ttl)
+    token = set_password(password, ttl)
 
     if NO_SSL:
         base_url = request.url_root
     else:
         base_url = request.url_root.replace("http://", "https://")
-    link = base_url + key
+    link = base_url + token
     return render_template('confirm.html', password_link=link)