🛂 Crypto

Note date 11 Mar, 2020
Tags node javascript
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The crypto module provides cryptographic functionality that includes a set of wrappers for OpenSSL’s hash, HMAC, cipher, decipher, sign, and verify functions.

Docs: http://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_crypto

import crypto from 'crypto'

const body = {
  uuid: '433d7a1b-e8e1-4b5a-b590-f468e5c18cc7',
  name: 'Zander',
}

const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256')
hash.update(JSON.stringify(body))
const hashedResponse = hash.digest('hex') // 5a7430e6d96dafadc642289eba7e215d3b9cfd7a58f9593749891424e6d75a4f
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