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A simple browserifiable module for password-encrypting JS objects.
A simple module for encrypting & decrypting Javascript objects with a password in the browser.
Serializes the encrypted payload as a string of text for easy storage.
Uses browser native crypto to be the lightest possible module you can have, with the most vetted internals you could ask for (the real guts here are implemented by the browser provider).
You need to have node.js installed.
npm install browser-passworder
var passworder = require('browser-passworder')
var secrets = { coolStuff: 'all', ssn: 'livin large' }
var password = 'hunter55'
passworder.encrypt(password, secrets)
.then(function(blob) {
return passworder.decrypt(password, blob)
})
.then(function(result) {
assert.deepEqual(result, secrets)
})
There are also some more advanced internal methods you can choose to use, but that's the basic version of it.
The most advanced alternate usage would be if you want to cache the password-derived key to speed up performance for many encryptions/decryptions with the same password.
The serialized text is stored as a JSON blob that includes two base64-encoded fields, data
and iv
, neither of which you need to worry about.
The data is encrypted using the AES-GCM
algorithm. It is salted with the result of crypto.getRandomValues()
, and the encryption vector is generated the same way.
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A simple browserifiable module for password-encrypting JS objects.
The npm package browser-passworder receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, browser-passworder popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that browser-passworder demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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