diff --git a/miniakio/libs/crypto.py b/miniakio/libs/crypto.py
index 2afb08c..f0e1539 100644
--- a/miniakio/libs/crypto.py
+++ b/miniakio/libs/crypto.py
@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-"""
-Django's standard crypto functions and utilities.
-"""
 import hmac
 import base64
-import struct
 import hashlib
-import binascii
-import operator
-from functools import reduce
 
 
 rand_chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"
@@ -30,101 +23,14 @@ def get_random_string(length=12):
         random = random.SystemRandom()
     except NotImplementedError:
         pass
-    return "".join([random.choice(rand_chars) for i in range(length)])
-
-
-def constant_time_compare(val1, val2):
-    """
-    Returns True if the two strings are equal, False otherwise.
-
-    The time taken is independent of the number of characters that match.
-    """
-    if len(val1) != len(val2):
-        return False
-    result = 0
-    for x, y in zip(val1, val2):
-        result |= ord(x) ^ ord(y)
-    return result == 0
-
-
-def bin_to_long(x):
-    """
-    Convert a binary string into a long integer
-
-    This is a clever optimization for fast xor vector math
-    """
-    return int(binascii.hexlify(x), 16)
-
-
-def long_to_bin(x):
-    """
-    Convert a long integer into a binary string
-    """
-    hex = "%x" % (x)
-    if len(hex) % 2 == 1:
-        hex = "0" + hex
-    return binascii.unhexlify(hex)
-
-
-def fast_hmac(key, msg, digest):
-    """
-    A trimmed down version of Python's HMAC implementation
-    """
-    dig1, dig2 = digest(), digest()
-    key = key.encode("UTF-8")
-    if len(key) > dig1.block_size:
-        key = digest(key).digest()
-    key += b'\x00' * (dig1.block_size - len(key))
-
-    dig1.update(key.translate(hmac.trans_36))
-    dig1.update(msg)
-    dig2.update(key.translate(hmac.trans_5C))
-    dig2.update(dig1.digest())
-    return dig2
-
-
-def pbkdf2(password, salt, iterations, dklen=0, digest=None):
-    """
-    Implements PBKDF2 as defined in RFC 2898, section 5.2
-
-    HMAC+SHA256 is used as the default pseudo random function.
-
-    Right now 10,000 iterations is the recommended default which takes
-    100ms on a 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo.  This is probably the bare minimum
-    for security given 1000 iterations was recommended in 2001. This
-    code is very well optimized for CPython and is only four times
-    slower than openssl's implementation.
-    """
-    assert iterations > 0
-    if not digest:
-        digest = hashlib.sha256
-    hlen = digest().digest_size
-    if not dklen:
-        dklen = hlen
-    if dklen > (2 ** 32 - 1) * hlen:
-        raise OverflowError('dklen too big')
-    l = -(-dklen // hlen)
-    r = dklen - (l - 1) * hlen
-
-    salt = salt.encode("UTF-8")
-
-    def F(i):
-        def U():
-            u = salt + struct.pack(b'>I', i)
-            for j in range(int(iterations)):
-                u = fast_hmac(password, u, digest).digest()
-                yield bin_to_long(u)
-        return long_to_bin(reduce(operator.xor, U()))
-
-    T = [F(x) for x in range(1, l + 1)]
-    return b''.join(T[:-1]) + T[-1][:r]
+    return "".join([random.choice(rand_chars) for _ in range(length)])
 
 
 class PasswordCrypto(object):
 
     ALGORITHM = "pbkdf2_sha256"
     ITERATIONS = 5000
-    DIGEST = hashlib.sha256
+    DIGEST = "sha256"
 
     @classmethod
     def get_encrypted(cls, password, salt=None, iterations=None):
@@ -135,18 +41,25 @@ def get_encrypted(cls, password, salt=None, iterations=None):
         if not iterations:
             iterations = cls.ITERATIONS
 
-        encrypted = pbkdf2(password, salt, iterations, digest=cls.DIGEST)
+        encrypted = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac(
+            cls.DIGEST,
+            password.encode(),
+            salt.encode(),
+            iterations
+        )
 
-        encrypted = base64.b64encode(encrypted).decode("utf-8")
         return "{0}${1}${2}${3}".format(
-            cls.ALGORITHM, cls.ITERATIONS,
-            salt, encrypted
+            cls.ALGORITHM,
+            cls.ITERATIONS,
+            salt,
+            base64.b64encode(encrypted).decode()
         )
 
     @classmethod
     def authenticate(cls, password, encrypted):
-        algorithm, iterations, salt, encrypt = encrypted.split("$", 3)
+        algorithm, iterations, salt, _ = encrypted.split("$", 3)
         if algorithm != cls.ALGORITHM:
             return False
         encrypted_new = cls.get_encrypted(password, salt, int(iterations))
-        return constant_time_compare(encrypted, encrypted_new)
+
+        return hmac.compare_digest(encrypted, encrypted_new)