@hapi/cryptiles
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@hapi/cryptiles is a utility library for cryptographic operations, providing functions for generating random strings, comparing secure strings, and other cryptographic utilities.
Random String Generation
Generates a random string of a specified length. In this example, a random string of 16 characters is generated.
const Cryptiles = require('@hapi/cryptiles');
const randomString = Cryptiles.randomString(16);
console.log(randomString);Fixed Time Comparison
Compares two strings in a way that mitigates timing attacks. This example compares 'string1' and 'string2' and returns a boolean indicating if they are equal.
const Cryptiles = require('@hapi/cryptiles');
const result = Cryptiles.fixedTimeComparison('string1', 'string2');
console.log(result);Token Generation
Generates a random token consisting of digits. In this example, a 6-digit random token is generated.
const Cryptiles = require('@hapi/cryptiles');
const token = Cryptiles.randomDigits(6);
console.log(token);The built-in Node.js 'crypto' module provides cryptographic functionality that includes a set of wrappers for OpenSSL's hash, HMAC, cipher, decipher, sign, and verify functions. It is more comprehensive and versatile compared to @hapi/cryptiles.
bcrypt is a library to help you hash passwords. While it focuses on password hashing and salting, it provides secure hashing mechanisms similar to some of the functionalities in @hapi/cryptiles.
uuid is a library for generating RFC-compliant UUIDs. It focuses on generating unique identifiers, which is a subset of the random string generation functionality provided by @hapi/cryptiles.
cryptiles is part of the hapi ecosystem and was designed to work seamlessly with the hapi web framework and its other components (but works great on its own or with other frameworks). If you are using a different web framework and find this module useful, check out hapi – they work even better together.
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General purpose crypto utilities
The npm package @hapi/cryptiles receives a total of 1,020,988 weekly downloads. As such, @hapi/cryptiles popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @hapi/cryptiles demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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