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@ocap/mcrypto
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Forge mcrypto implementation for javascript, just a wrapper around existing javascript crypto libraries.
npm i @ocap/mcrypto -S
# OR
yarn add @ocap/mcrypto
const { Signer } = require('@ocap/mcrypto');
const keyPair = Signer.Ed25519.genKeyPair();
const message = 'some message to sign';
const signature = Signer.Ed25519.sign(message, keyPair.secretKey);
const result = Signer.Ed25519.verify(message, signature, keyPair.publicKey);
assert.ok(result);
const { Hasher } = require('@ocap/mcrypto');
const message = 'message to hash';
const hash = Hasher.SHA2.hash256(message);
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ed25519
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Crypto lib that provides signer,crypter,hasher interface
The npm package @ocap/mcrypto receives a total of 4,705 weekly downloads. As such, @ocap/mcrypto popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @ocap/mcrypto demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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