package com.zt.core.security;

/**
 * Service interface for encoding passwords.
 *
 * The preferred implementation is {@code BCryptPasswordEncoder}.
 *
 * @author Keith Donald
 */
public interface PasswordEncoder {

	/**
	 * Encode the raw password. Generally, a good encoding algorithm applies a SHA-1 or
	 * greater hash combined with an 8-byte or greater randomly generated salt.
	 */
	String encode(CharSequence rawPassword);

	/**
	 * Verify the encoded password obtained from storage matches the submitted raw
	 * password after it too is encoded. Returns true if the passwords match, false if
	 * they do not. The stored password itself is never decoded.
	 *
	 * @param rawPassword the raw password to encode and match
	 * @param encodedPassword the encoded password from storage to compare with
	 * @return true if the raw password, after encoding, matches the encoded password from
	 * storage
	 */
	boolean matches(CharSequence rawPassword, String encodedPassword);

}