Thursday, 22 May 2014

Password Encryption For Forms Authentication in ASP.Net

Introduction
This article explains Forms Authentication and how to generate the encrypted password for Forms Authentication.

Forms Authenctication
With Forms Authentication you create a login page containing the credentials from the user and that includes code to authenticate the credentials. Forms Authentication provides you with a way to handle authentication using your own custom logic. ASP.Net leverages it's framework to support cookies and establishes the security context for each web request; this is called a Form Authentication.

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name="GenratePwd.aspx">
        <credentials passwordFormat="SHA1">
          <user name="Admin" password="A48911A9D19A1882B35EB2F22FB75CA32307E27A"/>
        </credentials>
      </forms>
    </authentication>

In a <authentication> tag we validate the username and password, here the user tag contains the two attributes "name" and "password". In a password attribute you need to copy the encrypted  password from the text file and paste it here. One <User> tag stores only one username and password. If you want to use multiple usernames and passwords then you need to use another user tag.

HashPassowordForStoringInConfigFile Method
The "HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile" method creates a hashed password value that can be used when storing Forms Authentication credentials in the configuration file. You may want to store passwords securely in a Web.config file. You can use the "FormsAuthentication" class utility function named "HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile" to encrypt the password before you save it in a configuration file.
string ns = FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile("Your Password""SHA1");
The password that is encrypted by the "FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringConfigFile" method using the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA1).
 public GenratePwd()
    {
        //Sujoyis the password for the admin that is encrypted by HasPasswordForStoringInConfigFile method.
        string ns = FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile("Sujoy""SHA1");
        //Password is encrypted in a text file P.txt
        StreamWriter s = File.CreateText("D:\\Sujoy\\Sujoy_Doc.txt");
        s.WriteLine(ns);
        s.Close();
    }

Create DataBase and Table in SQL-SERVER
create database UserLoginDetails
use UserLoginDetails
create table UserLogin
(
UserName nvarchar(max),
Password nvarchar(max)
)

Step 1:
Open Visual Studio then select "Create New Website" --> "ASP.NET Web Site".
Step 2:
Now go to the Solution Explorer to the right side of the application and use the procedure in the following figure.
NewItem->Add->FormAuthontiction
Step 3 :
Add a new Web form in the empty web application as in the following figure.
Step 4 :
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="GenratePwd.aspx.cs" Inherits="GenratePwd" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    <table border="0">
    <tr>
    <td>
    Enter User Name
    </td>
    <td>:</td>
    <td>
    <asp:TextBox ID="txtuser" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    </td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
    <td>
    Enter Password
    </td>
    <td>:</td>
    <td>
    <asp:TextBox ID="txtpwd" runat="server" TextMode="Password"></asp:TextBox>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td colspan="2">
    <asp:Button ID="btnsumit" runat="server" Text="Submit" OnClick="btnsumit_Click"/>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Add the ConnectionString and Admin Credentials in the Web.config file as in the following:

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name="GenratePwd.aspx">
        <credentials passwordFormat="SHA1">
          <user name="Admin" password="A48911A9D19A1882B35EB2F22FB75CA32307E27A"/>
        </credentials>
      </forms>
    </authentication>
<connectionStrings>
 <add name="dbconnection" connectionString="Data Source=; Initial Catalog=UserLoginDetails; 
User=abc; Password=****" providerName="SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

string conString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["dbconnection"].ConnectionString;
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
    public GenratePwd()
    {
        //Pankaj is the password for the admin that is encrypted by SHA1 algorithm
        string ns = FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile("MyPassoword""SHA1");
        //Password is encrypted in a text file P.txt
        StreamWriter s = File.CreateText("C:\\Pankaj\\P.txt");
        s.WriteLine(ns);
        s.Close();
    }
    protected void btnsumit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string un = txtuser.Text;
        Session["Username"] = txtuser.Text;
        string pwd = txtpwd.Text;
        if(FormsAuthentication.Authenticate(un,pwd))
        {
            Response.Redirect("AdminAccount.aspx");
        }
        else
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(conString);
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("Select UserName, Password from UserLogin Where UserName='"+un+"' and Password='"+pwd+"'",con);
            con.Open();
            SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
            bool b = rdr.Read();
            if (b == true)
            {
                Response.Redirect("UserAccount.aspx");
                con.Close();
            }
            else
            {
                Page.RegisterStartupScript("Alert Message",
         "<script language='javascript'>alert('username and password is incorrect try again');</script>");
                return;
            }
        }
    }

if(FormsAuthentication.Authenticate(un,pwd))// Authenticate( ) takes two argument.s It validates a username and password against credentials stored in a Web.config file for an application. The "Authenticate" method is to be used with the "FormsAuthentication" class.






 

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