shardus-crypto-web

Web crypto utilities as used by the Shardus project. Provides basic cryptography functions utilizing libsodium, with a simple API:

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

/*
  Module has an asynchronous initialize function that takes in a 32-byte hex key as required by node-sodium for generic hashing.
  Initialize function must be awaited before utilizing any other functions in your code.
*/
await crypto.initialize('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)

Install

npm install @shardus/crypto-web

Release

If you're feeling daring and you want to make a publish to npm, go ahead and run npm run release. However I warn you - once you cross that threshhold, there is no going back. You'd better make sure you really want it.

Use

const crypto = require('shardus-crypto-web')
(async () => {
  await crypto.initialize('64f152869ca2d473e4ba64ab53f49ccdb2edae22da192c126850970e788af347')
  let msg = crypto.hash('Hello world!')
  console.log(msg)
})()