Aug. 6, 2023, 9:46 a.m. | Thomas Pegler

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TL;DR: NodeJS Crypto should provide access to ChaCha20-Poly1305 which is a fantastic AEAD Encryption method which should cover the vast majority of use-cases while being fast, modern and strong enough for the foreseeable future.



Cryptography is hard. Good cryptography is even harder. Thankfully, most modern backend services provide many means for making this much easier for modern developers and NodeJS is no different.


When I started diving into NodeJS, trying to find good guides for cryptography in NodeJS was hard …

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