ftw-securify 0.1.3

Secure and robust input handling with TTY validation and bot protection.

securify

Secure and robust input handling for Python applications.

securify is a lightweight library designed to make user interactions more secure. Its primary goal is to provide reliable ways to capture sensitive information, like passwords, while enforcing strict security constraints.

Key Features

• Security First: Enforces interactive terminal (TTY) usage to prevent insecure input processing.
• Bot Protection: Built-in time delay checks to prevent automated script attacks.
• Double-Entry Verification: Simple logic to ensure users enter identical passwords.
• Developer Friendly: Fully type-hinted, 100% test coverage, and clean exception hierarchies.

Installation

pip install .

Quick Start

The core of the library is the PasswordDoubleCheck class. It ensures that a password is typed correctly twice and that the user is actually sitting at a terminal.

from securify.input.password import PasswordDoubleCheck
from securify.input.exceptions import PasswordError

# Initialize with a 1.5-second minimum delay
checker = PasswordDoubleCheck(min_delay=1.5)

try:
    password = checker()
    print("Password successfully verified!")
except PasswordError as e:
    # Handles Mismatch, Speed, or Terminal errors
    print(f"Verification failed: {e}")

Technical Background: Why TTY?

By default, securify rejects input that does not come from a real terminal. This ensures that the tool only processes input from a secure, interactive source.

If the input is provided through a pipe or another non-interactive process, the checker will reject the operation. This prevents the application from being used in insecure workflows where passwords might be handled through unsafe channels.

Development

securify is built with a focus on stability and cross-version compatibility. It is tested against Python 3.11 up to 3.15-alpha.

Running Tests

We use tox to manage environments and pytest for testing:

tox

Building Documentation

The documentation is built with Sphinx:

cd doc
make html

License

LGPLv2 or above.