browserify-sign
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The browserify-sign package is a part of the crypto-browserify project, which aims to emulate Node.js's crypto module for use in the browser. It specifically implements the sign and verify functionality for RSA and ECDSA, which are cryptographic algorithms used for digital signatures.
Signing data
This feature allows you to create digital signatures using RSA or ECDSA. The code sample demonstrates how to sign some data using an RSA private key.
const createSign = require('browserify-sign').createSign;
const sign = createSign('RSA-SHA256');
sign.update('some data to sign');
const privateKey = '...'; // Your RSA private key
const signature = sign.sign(privateKey, 'base64');Verifying signatures
This feature enables you to verify digital signatures to ensure data integrity and authenticity. The code sample shows how to verify a signature using an RSA public key.
const createVerify = require('browserify-sign').createVerify;
const verify = createVerify('RSA-SHA256');
verify.update('some data to sign');
const publicKey = '...'; // Your RSA public key
const signature = '...'; // The signature to verify
const isValid = verify.verify(publicKey, signature, 'base64');Elliptic is a package that provides implementations of elliptic curve cryptography. It can be used for signing and verifying data, similar to browserify-sign, but it focuses more on elliptic curve algorithms and includes additional functionality such as key generation and encryption/decryption.
Crypto-browserify is a project that aims to replicate the Node.js crypto module in the browser. It includes browserify-sign as a part of its suite, but it also offers a wider range of cryptographic functions such as hashing, cipher, decipher, and more.
Node-forge is a JavaScript implementation of various networking and cryptography tools. It is similar to browserify-sign in that it provides digital signature functionality, but it also includes a wide array of cryptographic operations like encryption, decryption, certificate handling, and more.
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A package to duplicate the functionality of node's crypto public key functions, much of this is based on Fedor Indutny's work on indutny/tls.js.
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adds node crypto signing for browsers
The npm package browserify-sign receives a total of 5,594,778 weekly downloads. As such, browserify-sign popularity was classified as popular.
We found that browserify-sign demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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