zulip/zerver/lib/initial_password.py
Max 04e2745136 Annotate debug.py, initial_password.py, narrow.py, response.py.
Also, fixed up the annotations for tornadoviews to better align with
how narrows was defined as `Iterable[Sequence[str]]` rather than
`List[Tuple[str, str]]`.
2016-06-04 12:56:36 -07:00

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from __future__ import absolute_import
from django.conf import settings
import hashlib
import base64
from typing import Optional
from six import text_type
def initial_password(email):
# type: (text_type) -> Optional[text_type]
"""Given an email address, returns the initial password for that account, as
created by populate_db."""
if settings.INITIAL_PASSWORD_SALT is not None:
encoded_key = (settings.INITIAL_PASSWORD_SALT + email).encode("utf-8")
digest = hashlib.sha256(encoded_key).digest()
return base64.b64encode(digest)[:16]
else:
# None as a password for a user tells Django to set an unusable password
return None