Questions tagged [node-crypto]

node-crypto should be used on questions related to cryptography api of node.js

The crypto module provides cryptographic functionality that includes a set of wrappers for OpenSSL's hash, HMAC, cipher, decipher, sign and verify functions.

Sample

// Import module.
const crypto = require('crypto');

// Prepare secret.
const secret = 'very secret';

// Create hash.
const hash = crypto.createHmac('sha256', secret)
                   .update('sample information')
                   .digest('hex');

// Print it.
console.log(hash);
// => 5087be71f85fd1ea755742b0fe4eaf5a7c4c25bee5db58f4f7edd1558ed792d0

References

• Documentation
• Encrypt and decrypt content with Nodejs
• How to use the crypto module