diff --git a/bcrypt/base64.go b/bcrypt/base64.go
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+// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package bcrypt
+
+import "encoding/base64"
+
+const alphabet = "./ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
+
+var bcEncoding = base64.NewEncoding(alphabet)
+
+func base64Encode(src []byte) []byte {
+	n := bcEncoding.EncodedLen(len(src))
+	dst := make([]byte, n)
+	bcEncoding.Encode(dst, src)
+	for dst[n-1] == '=' {
+		n--
+	}
+	return dst[:n]
+}
+
+func base64Decode(src []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	numOfEquals := 4 - (len(src) % 4)
+	for i := 0; i < numOfEquals; i++ {
+		src = append(src, '=')
+	}
+
+	dst := make([]byte, bcEncoding.DecodedLen(len(src)))
+	n, err := bcEncoding.Decode(dst, src)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return dst[:n], nil
+}
diff --git a/bcrypt/bcrypt.go b/bcrypt/bcrypt.go
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+++ b/bcrypt/bcrypt.go
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+package bcrypt
+
+// MODIFIED BY TENDERMINT TO EXPOSE NONCE
+// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package bcrypt implements Provos and Mazières's bcrypt adaptive hashing
+// algorithm. See http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/provos/provos.pdf
+
+// The code is a port of Provos and Mazières's C implementation.
+import (
+	"crypto/subtle"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/blowfish"
+)
+
+const (
+	MinCost     int = 4  // the minimum allowable cost as passed in to GenerateFromPassword
+	MaxCost     int = 31 // the maximum allowable cost as passed in to GenerateFromPassword
+	DefaultCost int = 10 // the cost that will actually be set if a cost below MinCost is passed into GenerateFromPassword
+)
+
+// The error returned from CompareHashAndPassword when a password and hash do
+// not match.
+var ErrMismatchedHashAndPassword = errors.New("crypto/bcrypt: hashedPassword is not the hash of the given password")
+
+// The error returned from CompareHashAndPassword when a hash is too short to
+// be a bcrypt hash.
+var ErrHashTooShort = errors.New("crypto/bcrypt: hashedSecret too short to be a bcrypted password")
+
+// The error returned from CompareHashAndPassword when a hash was created with
+// a bcrypt algorithm newer than this implementation.
+type HashVersionTooNewError byte
+
+func (hv HashVersionTooNewError) Error() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("crypto/bcrypt: bcrypt algorithm version '%c' requested is newer than current version '%c'", byte(hv), majorVersion)
+}
+
+// The error returned from CompareHashAndPassword when a hash starts with something other than '$'
+type InvalidHashPrefixError byte
+
+func (ih InvalidHashPrefixError) Error() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("crypto/bcrypt: bcrypt hashes must start with '$', but hashedSecret started with '%c'", byte(ih))
+}
+
+type InvalidCostError int
+
+func (ic InvalidCostError) Error() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("crypto/bcrypt: cost %d is outside allowed range (%d,%d)", int(ic), int(MinCost), int(MaxCost))
+}
+
+const (
+	majorVersion       = '2'
+	minorVersion       = 'a'
+	maxSaltSize        = 16
+	maxCryptedHashSize = 23
+	encodedSaltSize    = 22
+	encodedHashSize    = 31
+	minHashSize        = 59
+)
+
+// magicCipherData is an IV for the 64 Blowfish encryption calls in
+// bcrypt(). It's the string "OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt" in big-endian bytes.
+var magicCipherData = []byte{
+	0x4f, 0x72, 0x70, 0x68,
+	0x65, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x42,
+	0x65, 0x68, 0x6f, 0x6c,
+	0x64, 0x65, 0x72, 0x53,
+	0x63, 0x72, 0x79, 0x44,
+	0x6f, 0x75, 0x62, 0x74,
+}
+
+type hashed struct {
+	hash  []byte
+	salt  []byte
+	cost  int // allowed range is MinCost to MaxCost
+	major byte
+	minor byte
+}
+
+// GenerateFromPassword returns the bcrypt hash of the password at the given
+// cost. If the cost given is less than MinCost, the cost will be set to
+// DefaultCost, instead. Use CompareHashAndPassword, as defined in this package,
+// to compare the returned hashed password with its cleartext version.
+func GenerateFromPassword(salt []byte, password []byte, cost int) ([]byte, error) {
+	if len(salt) != maxSaltSize {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Salt len must be %v", maxSaltSize)
+	}
+	p, err := newFromPassword(salt, password, cost)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return p.Hash(), nil
+}
+
+// CompareHashAndPassword compares a bcrypt hashed password with its possible
+// plaintext equivalent. Returns nil on success, or an error on failure.
+func CompareHashAndPassword(hashedPassword, password []byte) error {
+	p, err := newFromHash(hashedPassword)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	otherHash, err := bcrypt(password, p.cost, p.salt)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	otherP := &hashed{otherHash, p.salt, p.cost, p.major, p.minor}
+	if subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(p.Hash(), otherP.Hash()) == 1 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	return ErrMismatchedHashAndPassword
+}
+
+// Cost returns the hashing cost used to create the given hashed
+// password. When, in the future, the hashing cost of a password system needs
+// to be increased in order to adjust for greater computational power, this
+// function allows one to establish which passwords need to be updated.
+func Cost(hashedPassword []byte) (int, error) {
+	p, err := newFromHash(hashedPassword)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return p.cost, nil
+}
+
+func newFromPassword(salt []byte, password []byte, cost int) (*hashed, error) {
+	if cost < MinCost {
+		cost = DefaultCost
+	}
+	p := new(hashed)
+	p.major = majorVersion
+	p.minor = minorVersion
+
+	err := checkCost(cost)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p.cost = cost
+
+	p.salt = base64Encode(salt)
+	hash, err := bcrypt(password, p.cost, p.salt)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p.hash = hash
+	return p, err
+}
+
+func newFromHash(hashedSecret []byte) (*hashed, error) {
+	if len(hashedSecret) < minHashSize {
+		return nil, ErrHashTooShort
+	}
+	p := new(hashed)
+	n, err := p.decodeVersion(hashedSecret)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	hashedSecret = hashedSecret[n:]
+	n, err = p.decodeCost(hashedSecret)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	hashedSecret = hashedSecret[n:]
+
+	// The "+2" is here because we'll have to append at most 2 '=' to the salt
+	// when base64 decoding it in expensiveBlowfishSetup().
+	p.salt = make([]byte, encodedSaltSize, encodedSaltSize+2)
+	copy(p.salt, hashedSecret[:encodedSaltSize])
+
+	hashedSecret = hashedSecret[encodedSaltSize:]
+	p.hash = make([]byte, len(hashedSecret))
+	copy(p.hash, hashedSecret)
+
+	return p, nil
+}
+
+func bcrypt(password []byte, cost int, salt []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	cipherData := make([]byte, len(magicCipherData))
+	copy(cipherData, magicCipherData)
+
+	c, err := expensiveBlowfishSetup(password, uint32(cost), salt)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	for i := 0; i < 24; i += 8 {
+		for j := 0; j < 64; j++ {
+			c.Encrypt(cipherData[i:i+8], cipherData[i:i+8])
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Bug compatibility with C bcrypt implementations. We only encode 23 of
+	// the 24 bytes encrypted.
+	hsh := base64Encode(cipherData[:maxCryptedHashSize])
+	return hsh, nil
+}
+
+func expensiveBlowfishSetup(key []byte, cost uint32, salt []byte) (*blowfish.Cipher, error) {
+
+	csalt, err := base64Decode(salt)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// Bug compatibility with C bcrypt implementations. They use the trailing
+	// NULL in the key string during expansion.
+	ckey := append(key, 0)
+
+	c, err := blowfish.NewSaltedCipher(ckey, csalt)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	var i, rounds uint64
+	rounds = 1 << cost
+	for i = 0; i < rounds; i++ {
+		blowfish.ExpandKey(ckey, c)
+		blowfish.ExpandKey(csalt, c)
+	}
+
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+func (p *hashed) Hash() []byte {
+	arr := make([]byte, 60)
+	arr[0] = '$'
+	arr[1] = p.major
+	n := 2
+	if p.minor != 0 {
+		arr[2] = p.minor
+		n = 3
+	}
+	arr[n] = '$'
+	n += 1
+	copy(arr[n:], []byte(fmt.Sprintf("%02d", p.cost)))
+	n += 2
+	arr[n] = '$'
+	n += 1
+	copy(arr[n:], p.salt)
+	n += encodedSaltSize
+	copy(arr[n:], p.hash)
+	n += encodedHashSize
+	return arr[:n]
+}
+
+func (p *hashed) decodeVersion(sbytes []byte) (int, error) {
+	if sbytes[0] != '$' {
+		return -1, InvalidHashPrefixError(sbytes[0])
+	}
+	if sbytes[1] > majorVersion {
+		return -1, HashVersionTooNewError(sbytes[1])
+	}
+	p.major = sbytes[1]
+	n := 3
+	if sbytes[2] != '$' {
+		p.minor = sbytes[2]
+		n++
+	}
+	return n, nil
+}
+
+// sbytes should begin where decodeVersion left off.
+func (p *hashed) decodeCost(sbytes []byte) (int, error) {
+	cost, err := strconv.Atoi(string(sbytes[0:2]))
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, err
+	}
+	err = checkCost(cost)
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, err
+	}
+	p.cost = cost
+	return 3, nil
+}
+
+func (p *hashed) String() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("&{hash: %#v, salt: %#v, cost: %d, major: %c, minor: %c}", string(p.hash), p.salt, p.cost, p.major, p.minor)
+}
+
+func checkCost(cost int) error {
+	if cost < MinCost || cost > MaxCost {
+		return InvalidCostError(cost)
+	}
+	return nil
+}