Is there a way to make output from QCryptographicHash readable QByteArray?

[artwaw]

Good afternoon.
I spent half of the afternoon trying to find a solution and I must be dumb or not know something.

The task:
internally I use this one-liner to create hashed passwords:

python -c "from passlib.hash import sha512_crypt; import getpass,string,random; print(sha512_crypt.using(salt=''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for _ in range(16)]),rounds=5000).hash(getpass.getpass()))"

but recently I had a need to ask non-technical people to do the same, so I can deal only with hashes and not their passwords. Since it is not urgent I decided to play a bit and came out with this code (compilable excerpts).
Method generateRndStr() returns QString and does generate random string from the pool of allowed characters and desired length passed as a parameter.
Method crypt is from unistd.h

QByteArray CryptoClass::getHash(const QByteArray &data) const {
    QCryptographicHash *hash = new QCryptograhicHash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512);
    hash->addData(crypt(data.constData(),generateRndStr(16).toUtf8().constData()));
return hash->result();

crypt() expects const char * as parameters so QByteArray::constData() seems to be ok? It returns char * so I assume it is compatible with QByteArray (I also checked printing raw values to stdout: salt, password and result of crypt() are as to be expected, all printable chars.

At any rate, when I wanted to compare the output from the python one-liner and my routine I run into trouble - how the hell do I convert this to text? I tried QString but that got me only running in circles and garbage on the screen. Same with printf to the stdout.
What do I miss here? Or is my approach somehow wrong?

EDIT: example output from the python one-liner and where do I want to get to:
$6$Lt5bExFakB7nrZEN$3KHS5HLNe8UwSxGQY6foF3vJiv/VxiGi2WWvz04c4OpoXgIB37GeaF6ILFtGhHZSMA7hL/6nGmEHeRRADXXWQ1

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@artwaw said in Is there a way to make output from QCryptographicHash readable QByteArray?:

And it is on the heap since I don't know how to initialise it otherwise (method selection).

I don't understand this? Why does

QCryptographicHash hash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512);

not work?

So you say QByteArray::toBase64 should suffice?

Yes

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Hashes are normally printed as base64 and so it's $6$Lt5bExFakB7nrZEN$3KHS5HLNe8UwSxGQY6foF3vJiv/VxiGi2WWvz04c4OpoXgIB37GeaF6ILFtGhHZSMA7hL/6nGmEHeRRADXXWQ1

QCryptographicHash *hash

You leak this instance, why do you create it on the heap at all?

[mrjj]

Hi

• I must be dumb or not know something.
  We all know here you are not dumb and there is a vaste universe of stuff we dont know but

QByteArray::constData() should be perfectly fine
but make sure the bytearray lives long enough for for crypt() to use it while still in scope.

[artwaw]

@Christian-Ehrlicher my bad but this is inly excerpt. In the program it is a member and is deleted in the destructor.
And it is on the heap since I don't know how to initialise it otherwise (method selection). One of the constrains I face is that it has to be SHA-512 and only that.

So you say QByteArray::toBase64 should suffice?

@mrjj I examined and tested the code from which excerpts are here, worked over 100 times both in loop with no wait and waiting for user input.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@artwaw said in Is there a way to make output from QCryptographicHash readable QByteArray?:

And it is on the heap since I don't know how to initialise it otherwise (method selection).

I don't understand this? Why does

QCryptographicHash hash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512);

not work?

So you say QByteArray::toBase64 should suffice?

Yes

[JonB]

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[artwaw]

IT WORKS!
Thank you!

@Christian-Ehrlicher That works, of course. But outside of the example it looks like this:
I wrapped all those hash-generating bits into a small class. For convenience, I have there:

private:
    QRandomGenerator generator;
    QCryptographicHash *hash;

In the constructor I init the generator and the hash. So I have hash = new QCryptographicHash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512); that is later deleted in the destructor. It apparently is a weak day for me but I failed to find a way of this private member NOT to be on the heap.

EDIT:
@JonB I saw your comment :)
I understood, just at this hour I am not entirely online, just from time to time :)

[JonB]

@artwaw
Personally I don't worry about heap vs stack as some others do, when I did Python it's all heap anyway. And sometimes I heap to avoid include dependencies in header files.

But why can't you have QCryptographicHash hash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512); as the member variable instead of pointer?

[artwaw]

@JonB When I do:

private:
    QCryptographicHash hash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512);

I get instant /Users/(username)/cpp/512hash/cryptoclass/cryptoclass.h:24: error: no type named 'Sha512' in 'QCryptographicHash'

[JonB]

@artwaw
Ah! That will be because you are in the "sometimes I heap to avoid include dependencies in header files" I mentioned :)

Intentionally or not, in your .h file you have preceded this line with

class QCryptographicHash;

That allows QCryptographicHash * declarations to the incomplete type.

You will need

#include <QCryptographicHash>

to make the declaration acceptable. If that is what you wish to do.

I see for example you alreday have

QRandomGenerator generator;

so you have chosen to do that one with include.

[artwaw]

@JonB Believe me or not but I do have it.

[JonB]

@artwaw
And that's in the .h file, not just in the .cpp?

[artwaw]

@JonB Yes. I tend to do all includes in the header.

[JonB]

@artwaw said in Is there a way to make output from QCryptographicHash readable QByteArray?:

I get instant /Users/(username)/cpp/512hash/cryptoclass/cryptoclass.h:24: error: no type named 'Sha512' in 'QCryptographicHash'

Then I have no idea why you get a "no type" error for

QCryptographicHash hash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512);

in a .h but not in a .cpp or why

hash = new QCryptographicHash(QCryptographicHash::Sha512);

is acceptable.

[artwaw]

@JonB I can live with one pair of new/delete :)

Thank you all who contributed and especially to @Christian-Ehrlicher for pointing me out the obvious.