Asymmetric Encryption Sample in Node.js: Encrypt and Decrypt using Password as a key(SECRET_KEY) / Triple-DES

nodejs_asymm_crypto_sample.js

/*
Asymmetric Encryption Sample in Node.js: Encrypt and Decrypt using Password as a key(SECRET_KEY)
Algorithm: des-ede3-cbc (Three key Triple-DES EDE in CBC mode)
johan@firebase.co
@thepumpkin
*/

var assert = require('assert')
var crypto = require('crypto')
var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer
var SECRET_KEY = "ChuckN0rrisL1kesPur3D3PapaSuperKey"
var ENCODING = 'hex'
var text = "This is the text to cipher!"
var cipher = crypto.createCipher('des-ede3-cbc', SECRET_KEY)
var cryptedPassword = cipher.update(text, 'utf8',ENCODING)
cryptedPassword+= cipher.final(ENCODING)

var decipher = crypto.createDecipher('des-ede3-cbc', SECRET_KEY)
var decryptedPassword = decipher.update(cryptedPassword, ENCODING,'utf8')
decryptedPassword += decipher.final('utf8')

assert.equal(text, decryptedPassword)

console.log("Crypted Text:", cryptedPassword)
console.log("Decrypted Text:", decryptedPassword)

Hey, that's not asymmetric, but symmetric!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

That's is symetric because asymetric has 2 secret keys, public and private.

Asymmetric encryption:

https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/f6f36efce2821dfb046d

This is totally not asymmetric encryption.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT AAAAAAAAAAsymmetic!!!