Node-RSA
Node.js RSA library
Based on jsbn library from Tom Wu http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/
- Pure JavaScript
- No needed OpenSSL
- Generating keys
- Supports long messages for encrypt/decrypt
- Signing and verifying
Example
const NodeRSA = require('node-rsa');
const key = new NodeRSA({b: 512});
const text = 'Hello RSA!';
const encrypted = key.encrypt(text, 'base64');
console.log('encrypted: ', encrypted);
const decrypted = key.decrypt(encrypted, 'utf8');
console.log('decrypted: ', decrypted);
Installing
npm install node-rsa
Requires nodejs >= 8.11.1
Testing
npm test
Work environment
This library developed and tested primary for Node.js, but it still can work in browsers with browserify.
Usage
Create instance
const NodeRSA = require('node-rsa');
const key = new NodeRSA([keyData, [format]], [options]);
- keyData —
{string|buffer|object}
— parameters for generating key or the key in one of supported formats.
- format —
{string}
— format for importing key. See more details about formats in Export/Import section.
- options —
{object}
— additional settings.
Options
You can specify some options by second/third constructor argument, or over key.setOptions()
method.
- environment — working environment (default autodetect):
'browser'
— will run pure js implementation of RSA algorithms.'node'
for nodejs >= 0.10.x or io.js >= 1.x
— provide some native methods like sign/verify and encrypt/decrypt.
- encryptionScheme — padding scheme for encrypt/decrypt. Can be
'pkcs1_oaep'
or 'pkcs1'
. Default 'pkcs1_oaep'
. - signingScheme — scheme used for signing and verifying. Can be
'pkcs1'
or 'pss'
or 'scheme-hash' format string (eg 'pss-sha1'
). Default 'pkcs1-sha256'
, or, if chosen pss: 'pss-sha1'
.
Notice: This lib supporting next hash algorithms: 'md5'
, 'ripemd160'
, 'sha1'
, 'sha256'
, 'sha512'
in browser and node environment and additional 'md4'
, 'sha'
, 'sha224'
, 'sha384'
in node only.
Some advanced options info
Creating "empty" key
const key = new NodeRSA();
Generate new 512bit-length key
const key = new NodeRSA({b: 512});
Also you can use next method:
key.generateKeyPair([bits], [exp]);
- bits —
{int}
— key size in bits. 2048 by default. - exp —
{int}
— public exponent. 65537 by default.
Load key from PEM string
const key = new NodeRSA('-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n'+
'MIIBOQIBAAJAVY6quuzCwyOWzymJ7C4zXjeV/232wt2ZgJZ1kHzjI73wnhQ3WQcL\n'+
'DFCSoi2lPUW8/zspk0qWvPdtp6Jg5Lu7hwIDAQABAkBEws9mQahZ6r1mq2zEm3D/\n'+
'VM9BpV//xtd6p/G+eRCYBT2qshGx42ucdgZCYJptFoW+HEx/jtzWe74yK6jGIkWJ\n'+
'AiEAoNAMsPqwWwTyjDZCo9iKvfIQvd3MWnmtFmjiHoPtjx0CIQCIMypAEEkZuQUi\n'+
'pMoreJrOlLJWdc0bfhzNAJjxsTv/8wIgQG0ZqI3GubBxu9rBOAM5EoA4VNjXVigJ\n'+
'QEEk1jTkp8ECIQCHhsoq90mWM/p9L5cQzLDWkTYoPI49Ji+Iemi2T5MRqwIgQl07\n'+
'Es+KCn25OKXR/FJ5fu6A6A+MptABL3r8SEjlpLc=\n'+
'-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----');
Import/Export keys
key.importKey(keyData, [format]);
key.exportKey([format]);
- keyData —
{string|buffer}
— may be:
- key in PEM string
- Buffer containing PEM string
- Buffer containing DER encoded data
- Object contains key components
- format —
{string}
— format id for export/import.
Format string syntax
Format string composed of several parts: scheme-[key_type]-[output_type]
Scheme — NodeRSA supports multiple format schemes for import/export keys:
'pkcs1'
— public key starts from '-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----'
header and private key starts from '-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----'
header'pkcs8'
— public key starts from '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----'
header and private key starts from '-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----'
header'openssh'
— public key starts from 'ssh-rsa'
header and private key starts from '-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----'
header'components'
— use it for import/export key from/to raw components (see example below). For private key, importing data should contain all private key components, for public key: only public exponent (e
) and modulus (n
). All components (except e
) should be Buffer, e
could be Buffer or just normal Number.
Key type — can be 'private'
or 'public'
. Default 'private'
Output type — can be:
'pem'
— Base64 encoded string with header and footer. Used by default.'der'
— Binary encoded key data.
Notice: For import, if keyData is PEM string or buffer containing string, you can do not specify format, but if you provide keyData as DER you must specify it in format string.
Shortcuts and examples
'private'
or 'pkcs1'
or 'pkcs1-private'
== 'pkcs1-private-pem'
— private key encoded in pcks1 scheme as pem string.'public'
or 'pkcs8-public'
== 'pkcs8-public-pem'
— public key encoded in pcks8 scheme as pem string.'pkcs8'
or 'pkcs8-private'
== 'pkcs8-private-pem'
— private key encoded in pcks8 scheme as pem string.'pkcs1-der'
== 'pkcs1-private-der'
— private key encoded in pcks1 scheme as binary buffer.'pkcs8-public-der'
— public key encoded in pcks8 scheme as binary buffer.
Code example
const keyData = '-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- ... -----END PUBLIC KEY-----';
key.importKey(keyData, 'pkcs8');
const publicDer = key.exportKey('pkcs8-public-der');
const privateDer = key.exportKey('pkcs1-der');
key.importKey({
n: Buffer.from('0086fa9ba066685845fc03833a9699c8baefb53cfbf19052a7f10f1eaa30488cec1ceb752bdff2df9fad6c64b3498956e7dbab4035b4823c99a44cc57088a23783', 'hex'),
e: 65537,
d: Buffer.from('5d2f0dd982596ef781affb1cab73a77c46985c6da2aafc252cea3f4546e80f40c0e247d7d9467750ea1321cc5aa638871b3ed96d19dcc124916b0bcb296f35e1', 'hex'),
p: Buffer.from('00c59419db615e56b9805cc45673a32d278917534804171edcf925ab1df203927f', 'hex'),
q: Buffer.from('00aee3f86b66087abc069b8b1736e38ad6af624f7ea80e70b95f4ff2bf77cd90fd', 'hex'),
dmp1: Buffer.from('008112f5a969fcb56f4e3a4c51a60dcdebec157ee4a7376b843487b53844e8ac85', 'hex'),
dmq1: Buffer.from('1a7370470e0f8a4095df40922a430fe498720e03e1f70d257c3ce34202249d21', 'hex'),
coeff: Buffer.from('00b399675e5e81506b729a777cc03026f0b2119853dfc5eb124610c0ab82999e45', 'hex')
}, 'components');
const publicComponents = key.exportKey('components-public');
console.log(publicComponents);
If you want to only import the public key use 'components-public'
as an option:
key.importKey({
n: Buffer.from('0086fa9ba066685845fc03833a9699c8baefb53cfbf19052a7f10f1eaa30488cec1ceb752bdff2df9fad6c64b3498956e7dbab4035b4823c99a44cc57088a23783', 'hex'),
e: 65537,
}, 'components-public');
Properties
Key testing
key.isPrivate();
key.isPublic([strict]);
strict — {boolean}
— if true method will return false if key pair have private exponent. Default false
.
key.isEmpty();
Return true
if key pair doesn't have any data.
Key info
key.getKeySize();
Return key size in bits.
key.getMaxMessageSize();
Return max data size for encrypt in bytes.
Encrypting/decrypting
key.encrypt(buffer, [encoding], [source_encoding]);
key.encryptPrivate(buffer, [encoding], [source_encoding]);
Return encrypted data.
- buffer —
{buffer}
— data for encrypting, may be string, Buffer, or any object/array. Arrays and objects will encoded to JSON string first.
- encoding —
{string}
— encoding for output result, may be 'buffer'
, 'binary'
, 'hex'
or 'base64'
. Default 'buffer'
.
- source_encoding —
{string}
— source encoding, works only with string buffer. Can take standard Node.js Buffer encodings (hex, utf8, base64, etc). 'utf8'
by default.
key.decrypt(buffer, [encoding]);
key.decryptPublic(buffer, [encoding]);
Return decrypted data.
- buffer —
{buffer}
— data for decrypting. Takes Buffer object or base64 encoded string.
- encoding —
{string}
— encoding for result string. Can also take 'buffer'
for raw Buffer object, or 'json'
for automatic JSON.parse result. Default 'buffer'
.
Notice: encryptPrivate
and decryptPublic
using only pkcs1 padding type 1 (not random)
Signing/Verifying
key.sign(buffer, [encoding], [source_encoding]);
Return signature for buffer. All the arguments are the same as for encrypt
method.
key.verify(buffer, signature, [source_encoding], [signature_encoding])
Return result of check, true
or false
.
- buffer —
{buffer}
— data for check, same as encrypt
method.
- signature —
{string}
— signature for check, result of sign
method.
- source_encoding —
{string}
— same as for encrypt
method.
- signature_encoding —
{string}
— encoding of given signature. May be 'buffer'
, 'binary'
, 'hex'
or 'base64'
. Default 'buffer'
.
Contributing
Questions, comments, bug reports, and pull requests are all welcome.
Changelog
1.1.0
- Added OpenSSH key format support.
1.0.2
- Importing keys from PEM now is less dependent on non-key data in files.
1.0.1
importKey()
now returns this
1.0.0
- Using semver now 🎉
- Breaking change: Drop support nodejs < 8.11.1
- Possible breaking change:
new Buffer()
call as deprecated was replaced by Buffer.from
& Buffer.alloc
. - Possible breaking change: Drop support for hash scheme
sha
(was removed in node ~10). sha1
, sha256
and others still works. - Possible breaking change: Little change in environment detect algorithm.
0.4.2
no padding
scheme will padded data with zeros on all environments.
0.4.1
PKCS1 no padding
scheme support.
0.4.0
- License changed from BSD to MIT.
- Some changes in internal api.
0.3.3
- Fixed PSS encode/verify methods with max salt length.
0.3.2
- Fixed environment detection in web worker.
0.3.0
- Added import/export from/to raw key components.
- Removed lodash from dependencies.
0.2.30
- Fixed a issue when the key was generated by 1 bit smaller than specified. It may slow down the generation of large keys.
0.2.24
- Now used old hash APIs for webpack compatible.
0.2.22
encryptPrivate
and decryptPublic
now using only pkcs1 (type 1) padding.
0.2.20
- Added
.encryptPrivate()
and .decryptPublic()
methods. - Encrypt/decrypt methods in nodejs 0.12.x and io.js using native implementation (> 40x speed boost).
- Fixed some regex issue causing catastrophic backtracking.
0.2.10
- Methods
.exportPrivate()
and .exportPublic()
was replaced by .exportKey([format])
.
- By default
.exportKey()
returns private key as .exportPrivate()
, if you need public key from .exportPublic()
you must specify format as 'public'
or 'pkcs8-public-pem'
.
- Method
.importKey(key, [format])
now has second argument.
0.2.0
.getPublicPEM()
method was renamed to .exportPublic()
.getPrivatePEM()
method was renamed to .exportPrivate()
.loadFromPEM()
method was renamed to .importKey()
- Added PKCS1_OAEP encrypting/decrypting support.
- PKCS1_OAEP now default scheme, you need to specify 'encryptingScheme' option to 'pkcs1' for compatibility with 0.1.x version of NodeRSA.
- Added PSS signing/verifying support.
- Signing now supports
'md5'
, 'ripemd160'
, 'sha1'
, 'sha256'
, 'sha512'
hash algorithms in both environments
and additional 'md4'
, 'sha'
, 'sha224'
, 'sha384'
for nodejs env. options.signingAlgorithm
was renamed to options.signingScheme
- Added
encryptingScheme
option. - Property
key.options
now mark as private. Added key.setOptions(options)
method.
0.1.54
- Added support for loading PEM key from Buffer (
fs.readFileSync()
output). - Added
isEmpty()
method.
0.1.52
- Improve work with not properly trimming PEM strings.
0.1.50
- Implemented native js signing and verifying for browsers.
options.signingAlgorithm
now takes only hash-algorithm name.- Added
.getKeySize()
and .getMaxMessageSize()
methods. .loadFromPublicPEM
and .loadFromPrivatePEM
methods marked as private.
0.1.40
0.1.30
- Added long message support.
License
Copyright (c) 2014 rzcoder
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Licensing for code used in rsa.js and jsbn.js
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