Shardus Crypto Utils

Shardus Crypto Utils is a tool providing a set of cryptographic utility functions specifically designed for developers working with the Shardus core. It offers a simplified interface to node-sodium cryptographic functions, which are fundamental to the Shardus project.

Installation

You can install Shardus Crypto Utils via npm:

npm install @shardus/crypto-utils

Usage

const crypto = require('shardus-crypto-utils')

// Module has a constructor that takes in a 32-byte hex key as required by node-sodium for generic hashing
crypto.init('64f152869ca2d473e4ba64ab53f49ccdb2edae22da192c126850970e788af347')

// Uses json-stable-stringify to stringify an object in a consistent sorted manner; returns a string
crypto.stringify(obj)

/*
  Returns a 32-byte random hex string by default, otherwise you can
  specify how many bytes you would like to generate
*/
crypto.randomBytes([bytes])

// Returns the hash of the input, output format can be specified as 'hex' or 'buffer'
crypto.hash(input [, fmt])

/*
  Returns the hash of the provided object as a hex string, optional
  parameter to hash the object without the "sign" field (default is
  false, can be passed true to hash without "sign")
*/
crypto.hashObj(obj [, removeSign])

// Generates and returns {publicKey, secretKey} as hex strings
crypto.generateKeypair()

// Returns a signature obtained by signing the input with the sk
crypto.sign(input, sk)

/*
  Attaches a sign field to the input object, containing a signed version
  of the hash of the object, along with the public key of the signer
*/
crypto.signObj(obj, sk, pk)

// Returns true if the input was signed by the owner of the pk
crypto.verify(input, sig, pk)

/*
  Returns true if the hash of the object minus the sign field matches
  the signed message in the sign field
*/
crypto.verifyObj(obj)

Here's how you can use Shardus Crypto Utils in your Node.js application:

const crypto = require('shardus-crypto-utils')
crypto.init('64f152869ca2d473e4ba64ab53f49ccdb2edae22da192c126850970e788af347')

let msg = crypto.hash('Hello world!')
console.log(msg)

Release

To release a new version of Shardus Crypto Utils, run the following command:

npm run release

This will handle version bumping, generating release notes, tagging, and publishing to npm.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Everyone interacting in our codebases, issue trackers, and any other form of communication, including chat rooms and mailing lists, is expected to follow our code of conduct so we can all enjoy the effort we put into this project.