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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
Simple, effective, easy to implement encryption for JavaScript
const { encrypt, decrypt, hash, hashCompare } = require('keyhasher');
var encryptedWord = encrypt("Normal Sentence", 572); // use code directly or use via .env
console.log(`Encrypted Phrase: ${encryptedWord}`) // Output: "QGFkX1NeEkVXYGZXYFVX"
var rawWord = decrypt(encryptedWord, 572); // or use process.env.PASSCODE
console.log(`Output: ${rawWord}`) // Output: "Normal Sentence"
const hashed = hash(encryptedWord); // encryption + hashing
console.log(`Hashed: ${hashed}`) // Output: "5bf22a00c0df8757f68e700066bd56c5edffc4103f9587666ccbde062a0f52f5"
const isCorrect = hashCompare(hash('user given password'), hashed); // it hashes user input & compares with the hashed value stored in database
console.log(isCorrect); // returns a boolean
The hashCompare() function can't be affected with Timing attack.
Timing attacks are a type of attack that can be used to determine the contents of a secret string by measuring the time it takes to compare two strings character-by-character. To prevent timing attacks, Keyhasher uses a constant-time string comparison algorithm.
The use of Buffer in the implementation of the secure string comparison function is to convert the input strings into a format that can be easily compared byte-by-byte in a constant-time manner. Buffer is a built-in class in Node.js that provides a way to represent binary data in the form of a fixed-size sequence of bytes.
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Simple, effective, easy to implement encryption for JavaScript
The npm package keyhasher receives a total of 13 weekly downloads. As such, keyhasher popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that keyhasher 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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