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Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers

You're reading from Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers A practical guide to leveraging common cryptographic operations in Node.js and the browser

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075336

Length 220 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Cryptography

Author (1):

Alessandro Segala

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Getting Started

2. Chapter 1: Cryptography for Developers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Dealing with Binary and Random Data

4. Part 2 – Using Common Cryptographic Operations with Node.js

5. Chapter 3: File and Password Hashing with Node.js

6. Chapter 4: Symmetric Encryption in Node.js

7. Chapter 5: Using Asymmetric and Hybrid Encryption in Node.js

8. Chapter 6: Digital Signatures with Node.js and Trust

9. Part 3 – Cryptography in the Browser

10. Chapter 7: Introduction to Cryptography in the Browser

11. Chapter 8: Performing Common Cryptographic Operations in the Browser

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

Please refer to the Technical requirements section of Chapter 7, Introduction to Cryptography in the Browser, since the technical requirements are the same for this chapter too.

In particular, please note that all the samples in this chapter have been optimized so that they can be included in modern browser-based applications that are packaged using a bundler for JavaScript code, such as Webpack or similar. Alternatively, the code can also be executed in Node.js 15 or higher by importing the compatibility object from the crypto package.

To make it easier to experiment with the code shown in this chapter, we've created a "playground" that you can run within your web browser: https://bit.ly/crypto-playground.

As a reminder, all the code samples for this chapter and the previous can be found in this book's GitHub repository at https://bit.ly/crypto-ch8.

Lastly, please note that some code samples depend on libraries to convert from...

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Authors (1)

Segala

Segala

Alessandro Segala is a product manager at Microsoft working on developer tools. A software engineer at heart, he has over a decade of experience building full stack web applications, having worked as a professional developer as well as contributing to and maintaining various open source projects. In addition to writing about software development on his blog, Alessandro had his first book, Svelte 3 Up and Running, published by Packt in 2020.

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