just-encrypt-me

⚡️ A super simple encryption library.

NOTE: just-encrypt-me is still a pre-release project (v0.x.x). Please use at your own risk. If you find this project useful, please consider leaving a star so others can find it. Thanks!

What?

This library takes a few of the best methods from the Web Crypto API and simplifies it to make encryption easier (with pretty good defaults based on best practices).

• ✨ Simplified encrypt/decrypt API while still following best security practices.
• 🚀 Works in browsers, web workers, node and electron. React Native not tested.
• 🔑 Asymmetric encryption coming soon.

Install

yarn add just-encrypt-me

or with npm

npm install just-encrypt-me

Usage

Encrypt text 🔐

import { encrypt, generateSeed } from 'just-encrypt-me';

const password = 'somestrongpassword';
const seed = generateSeed();

const encrypted = await encrypt('Hello, World!', password, seed);

// export the base64 of the encrypted text
const base64 = encrypted.base64(); // 4AZS2rs2OZ4j5u9BM68TsMzXo1silVZ2UvRkiTE=

// or the buffer
const buffer = encrypted.buffer(); // <Buffer e0 06 52 ...>

Save the seed and base64 or buffer to your database for later decryption. password is the only sensitive info here so you can save the seed in plaintext.

Decrypt text 🔓

import { decrypt } from 'just-encrypt-me';

// decrypt from a base64 string
const decrypted = decrypt(base64, password, seed);
console.log(decrypted.string()); // Hello, World!

// or decrypt from buffer
const decrypted = decrypt(buffer, password, seed);
console.log(decrypted.string()); // Hello, World!

Other cool things you can do 🤩

Hash a message

This is a one way hash meaning it's impossible to reverse the hashed value.

import { hash } from 'just-encrypt-me';

const hashed = hash('some message');
console.log(hashed); // 6yAa9arw1gYp09KmHkZs/A/ttRet2DHsrFI14dqpY9Y=

Derive key from password

At some point you may want to encrypt multiple items without using the plaintext password every single time, or you may want to use different seeds for each item. For that you can derive a key from the plaintext password and use the key for all encryption/decryption.

import { deriveKey, generateSeed } from 'just-encrypt-me';

const password = 'somestrongpassword';
const seed = generateSeed();

const key = await deriveKey(password, seed);

Encrypt text using a key

import { encryptWithKey, generateSeed } from 'just-encrypt-me';

const seed2 = generateSeed();

const encrypted = await encryptWithKey('Hello, World!', key, seed2);

Here, we're using 2 separate seeds for the password and text encryption. You will need to save both in your database for later decryption. Again, password is the only sensitive info here so you can save seed and seed2 in plaintext.

key is a CryptoKey object. Don't save this to your database, it's not safe. Instead, you should generate this whenever needed.

Decrypt text using a key

import { decrypt } from 'just-encrypt-me';

// decrypt from a base64 string
const decrypted = decryptWithKey(base64, key, seed2);
console.log(decrypted.string()); // Hello, World!

// or decrypt from buffer
const decrypted = decryptWithKey(buffer, key, seed2);
console.log(decrypted.string()); // Hello, World!

Documentation

I'm still putting together a docs site. Watch this space..

Minimal, therefore Opinionated

The goal for this library is to provide devs an easy to use encryption API, so I've only provided the methods that are industry standard with pretty secure defaults.

• Has only 1 type of symmetric encryption mode (AES-GCM-256) from the Web Crypto API (based on best practices and imo)
• Password key derivation will do 500,000 iterations by default (minimum, can set higher, but not lower)
• Has only 1 hash method (SHA256)
• Expects UTF-8 everywhere input
• Nonce, salt and IV are all simply referred to as "seed" in all function arguments. Avoids confusion. Simplifies the library.

If you need to use other types of encryption mode or tweak any other settings, this library is not what you're looking for.

Maintainers

• Jeff Bocala — @jeffbocala, https://jeffbocala.com

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.