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minimalistic-crypto-utils
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The minimalistic-crypto-utils package provides utility functions for cryptographic operations. These utilities are designed to be small and efficient, making them suitable for environments where minimal overhead is desired.
Bytes to Hex String Conversion
Converts a byte array to a hexadecimal string representation.
"use strict";
const utils = require('minimalistic-crypto-utils');
const bytes = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
const hexString = utils.toHex(bytes);
console.log(hexString); // Outputs: '48656c6c6f'
Hex String to Bytes Conversion
Converts a hexadecimal string to a byte array.
"use strict";
const utils = require('minimalistic-crypto-utils');
const hexString = '48656c6c6f';
const bytes = utils.toArray(hexString);
console.log(bytes); // Outputs: [72, 101, 108, 108, 111]
Concatenation of Byte Arrays
Concatenates multiple byte arrays into one.
"use strict";
const utils = require('minimalistic-crypto-utils');
const arr1 = new Uint8Array([72, 101]);
const arr2 = new Uint8Array([108, 108, 111]);
const combined = utils.concat(arr1, arr2);
console.log(combined); // Outputs: Uint8Array [72, 101, 108, 108, 111]
Equality Check for Byte Arrays
Checks if two byte arrays are equal.
"use strict";
const utils = require('minimalistic-crypto-utils');
const arr1 = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
const arr2 = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
const isEqual = utils.equals(arr1, arr2);
console.log(isEqual); // Outputs: true
Crypto-js is a package with more comprehensive cryptographic functionalities including various encryption standards, hashing functions, and encoding utilities. It is larger and more feature-rich compared to minimalistic-crypto-utils.
The buffer package provides Node.js Buffer class utilities which can be used for handling binary data. It offers a similar byte array manipulation functionality but is a core part of Node.js and not specifically focused on cryptographic utilities.
Node-forge is a JavaScript implementation of various networking and cryptography tools. It is much more extensive than minimalistic-crypto-utils, offering a wide range of cryptographic operations including certificate management, TLS, and various encryption algorithms.
Very minimal utils that are required in order to write reasonable JS-only crypto module.
const utils = require('minimalistic-crypto-utils');
utils.toArray('abcd', 'hex');
utils.encode([ 1, 2, 3, 4 ], 'hex');
utils.toHex([ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]);
This software is licensed under the MIT License.
Copyright Fedor Indutny, 2017.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Minimalistic tools for JS crypto modules
The npm package minimalistic-crypto-utils receives a total of 9,989,267 weekly downloads. As such, minimalistic-crypto-utils popularity was classified as popular.
We found that minimalistic-crypto-utils 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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