crypto2

crypto2 is a convenience wrapper around Node.js' crypto module.

Installation

$ npm install crypto2

Quick start

First you need to integrate crypto2 with your application. For that add a reference to the crypto2 module.

const crypto2 = require('crypto2');

Creating passwords

For encrypting and decrypting you will need a password. To create a secure password, run the createPassword function and hand over a secret key:

const password = await crypto2.createPassword('secret');

By default, createPassword returns passwords with 32 bytes length. If you have to use passwords of a different length, provide the number of bytes you want the password to have:

const password = await crypto2.createPassword('secret', 64);

Please note that running createPassword twice with the same key results in two different passwords, so you must store the generated password. It can not be recovered if you lost it, even if you know the original key.

Creating and managing keys

For signing and verifying as well as for encrypting and decrypting using asymmetric encryption algorithms you will need a PEM encoded private and public key pair. You can use the openssl command-line tool to create both of them:

$ openssl genrsa -out privateKey.pem 2048
$ openssl rsa -in privateKey.pem -pubout > publicKey.pem

Alternatively the key pair may be created programmatically by calling the createKeyPair function. This function creates a 2048-bit strong RSA key pair in PEM format:

const { privateKey, publicKey } = await crypto2.createKeyPair();

To load a private key from a .pem file call the readPrivateKey function and specify the name of the key file:

const privateKey = await crypto2.readPrivateKey('key.pem');

To load a public key from a .pub file call the readPublicKey function and specify the name of the key file:

const publicKey = await crypto2.readPublicKey('key.pub');

Symmetrically encrypting and decrypting

If you want crypto2 to select an encryption algorithm for you, call the encrypt and decrypt functions without any specific algorithm. This defaults to the AES 256 CBC encryption algorithm. Please note that you must provide an initialization vector (iv). To create one, use the createIv function:

const password = await crypto2.createPassword('secret');
// => [...]
 
const iv = await crypto2.createIv();
// => [...]
 
const encrypted = await crypto2.encrypt('the native web', password, iv);
// => [...]
 
const decrypted = await crypto2.decrypt(encrypted, password, iv);
// => the native web

To encrypt and decrypt using the AES 256 CBC encryption algorithm call the encrypt.aes256cbc and decrypt.aes256cbc functions:

const password = await crypto2.createPassword('secret');
// => [...]
 
const iv = await crypto2.createIv();
// => [...]
 
const encrypted = await crypto2.encrypt.aes256cbc('the native web', password, iv);
// => [...]
 
const decrypted = await crypto2.decrypt.aes256cbc(encrypted, password, iv);
// => the native web

Asymmetrically encrypting and decrypting

To encrypt and decrypt using the asymmetric RSA encryption algorithm call the encrypt.rsa and decrypt.rsa functions. Due to technical limitations of the RSA algorithm the text to be encrypted must not be longer than 215 bytes when using keys with 2048 bits:

const encrypted = await crypto2.encrypt.rsa('the native web', publicKey);
// => [...]
 
const decrypted = await crypto2.decrypt.rsa(encrypted, privateKey);
// => the native web

Signing and verifying

If you want crypto2 to select a signing algorithm for you, call the sign and verify functions without any specific algorithm. This defaults to the SHA256 signing algorithm:

const signature = await crypto2.sign('the native web', privateKey);
// => [...]
 
const isSignatureValid = await crypto2.verify('the native web', publicKey, signature);
// => true

To sign and verify using the SHA256 signing algorithm call the sign.sha256 and verify.sha256 functions:

const signature = await crypto2.sign.sha256('the native web', privateKey);
// => [...]
 
const isSignatureValid = await crypto2.verify.sha256('the native web', publicKey, signature);
// => true

Hashing

If you want crypto2 to select a hash algorithm for you, call the hash function without any specific algorithm. This defaults to the SHA256 hash algorithm:

const hash = await crypto2.hash('the native web');
// => 55a1f59420da66b2c4c87b565660054cff7c2aad5ebe5f56e04ae0f2a20f00a9

To calculate the MD5 hash value of a string call the hash.md5 function:

const hash = await crypto2.hash.md5('the native web');
// => 4e8ba2e64931c64b63f4dc8d90e1dc7c

To calculate the SHA1 hash value of a string call the hash.sha1 function:

const hash = await crypto2.hash.sha1('the native web');
// => cc762e69089ee2393b061ab26a005319bda94744

To calculate the SHA256 hash value of a string call the hash.sha256 function:

const hash = await crypto2.hash.sha256('the native web');
// => 55a1f59420da66b2c4c87b565660054cff7c2aad5ebe5f56e04ae0f2a20f00a9

Message authentication

If you want crypto2 to select a HMAC algorithm for you, call the hmac function without any specific algorithm. This defaults to the SHA256 hash algorithm:

const hmac = await crypto2.hmac('the native web', 'secret');
// => 028e3043f9d848e346c8a93c4c29b091cb871065b6f5d1199f38e5a7360532f4

To calculate the SHA1-based HMAC value of a string call the hmac.sha1 function:

const hmac = await crypto2.hmac.sha1('the native web', 'secret');
// => c9a6cdb2d350820e76a14f4f9a6392990ce1982a

To calculate the SHA256-based HMAC value of a string call the hmac.sha256 function:

const hmac = await crypto2.hmac.sha256('the native web', 'secret');
// => 028e3043f9d848e346c8a93c4c29b091cb871065b6f5d1199f38e5a7360532f4

Running the build

To build this module use roboter.

$ npx roboter

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2013-2018 the native web.

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