js-libp2p-crypto

Crypto primitives for libp2p in JavaScript

This repo contains the JavaScript implementation of the crypto primitives needed for libp2p. This is based on this go implementation.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
  • Example
• API
  • generateKeyPair(type, bits)
  • generateEphemeralKeyPair(curve)
  • keyStretcher(cipherType, hashType, secret)
  • marshalPublicKey(key[, type])
  • unmarshalPublicKey(buf)
  • marshalPrivateKey(key[, type])
  • unmarshalPrivateKey(buf)
• Contribute
• License

Install

npm install --save libp2p-crypto

Usage

Example

const crypto = require('libp2p-crypto')

var keyPair = crypto.generateKeyPair('RSA', 2048)

API

generateKeyPair(type, bits)

• type: String, only 'RSA' is currently supported
• bits: Number

Generates a keypair of the given type and bitsize.

generateEphemeralKeyPair(curve)

• curve: String, one of 'P-256', 'P-384', 'P-521' is currently supported

Generates an ephemeral public key and returns a function that will compute the shared secret key.

Focuses only on ECDH now, but can be made more general in the future.

Returns an object of the form

{
  key: Buffer,
  genSharedKey: Function
}

keyStretcher(cipherType, hashType, secret)

• cipherType: String, one of 'AES-128', 'AES-256', 'Blowfish'
• hashType: String, one of 'SHA1', SHA256, SHA512
• secret: Buffer

Generates a set of keys for each party by stretching the shared key.

Returns an object of the form

{
  k1: {
    iv: Buffer,
    cipherKey: Buffer,
    macKey: Buffer
  },
  k2: {
    iv: Buffer,
    cipherKey: Buffer,
    macKey: Buffer
  }
}

marshalPublicKey(key[, type])

• key: crypto.rsa.RsaPublicKey
• type: String, only 'RSA' is currently supported

Converts a public key object into a protobuf serialized public key.

unmarshalPublicKey(buf)

• buf: Buffer

Converts a protobuf serialized public key into its representative object.

marshalPrivateKey(key[, type])

• key: crypto.rsa.RsaPrivateKey
• type: String, only 'RSA' is currently supported

Converts a private key object into a protobuf serialized private key.

unmarshalPrivateKey(buf)

• buf: Buffer

Converts a protobuf serialized private key into its representative object.

Contribute

Feel free to join in. All welcome. Open an issue!

This repository falls under the IPFS Code of Conduct.

License

MIT