Stronger Encryption and Decryption in Node.js
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'use strict'; | |
const crypto = require('crypto'); | |
const ENCRYPTION_KEY = process.env.ENCRYPTION_KEY; // Must be 256 bits (32 characters) | |
const IV_LENGTH = 16; // For AES, this is always 16 | |
function encrypt(text) { | |
let iv = crypto.randomBytes(IV_LENGTH); | |
let cipher = crypto.createCipheriv('aes-256-cbc', Buffer.from(ENCRYPTION_KEY), iv); | |
let encrypted = cipher.update(text); | |
encrypted = Buffer.concat([encrypted, cipher.final()]); | |
return iv.toString('hex') + ':' + encrypted.toString('hex'); | |
} | |
function decrypt(text) { | |
let textParts = text.split(':'); | |
let iv = Buffer.from(textParts.shift(), 'hex'); | |
let encryptedText = Buffer.from(textParts.join(':'), 'hex'); | |
let decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv('aes-256-cbc', Buffer.from(ENCRYPTION_KEY), iv); | |
let decrypted = decipher.update(encryptedText); | |
decrypted = Buffer.concat([decrypted, decipher.final()]); | |
return decrypted.toString(); | |
} | |
module.exports = { decrypt, encrypt }; |
I am unable to run the code.....whenever I am entering the string.....it gives me an error...
made this package a while ago for server side encrypted payloads to use for backend only: https://www.npmjs.com/package/encryption.js
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The password generator that you included doesn't load anymore. You can try this one.
https://passwords-generator.org