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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 bytes (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', new Buffer(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 = new Buffer(textParts.shift(), 'hex'); | |
let encryptedText = new Buffer(textParts.join(':'), 'hex'); | |
let decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv('aes-256-cbc', new Buffer(ENCRYPTION_KEY), iv); | |
let decrypted = decipher.update(encryptedText); | |
decrypted = Buffer.concat([decrypted, decipher.final()]); | |
return decrypted.toString(); | |
} | |
module.exports = { decrypt, encrypt }; |
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