Basic security API for Typescript that optimizes for easy use

The 0.2.0 release breaks compatibility with the previous relesae, 0.1.9. This was noted in the 0.1.9 README. The changes include:

• Using AES-GCM 256 as the default cipher instead of AES-CBC 128.
• Moving encryptToHex and decryptToHex to static methods that feature per-encrypt IVs automatically generated and prepended to the encrypted message.
• Removing the Crypter class.

No deprecation notices are included as the change of the cipher implies the need to regenerate encrypted messages generated with versions prior.

I find most security APIs hard to use. What I'm usually looking for is simple ways to hash values, encrypt/decrypt values, and generate random strings.

In almost all cases, I want to work with values that can be printed and stored directly, which for me means using hex encoding as a serialization format.

This module is not for cryptography experts. This module is not for people who want to tune parameters. This module is for people for whom AES-GCM is a "good enough" cipher, for whom v4 UUIDs are a "good enough" random value, and for whom sha256 is a "good enough" hash.

Check out test.ts for some good copy-paste code samples.

import * as easysecurity from "https://deno.land/x/easysecurity/mod.ts";

sha256Hex(input); // sha256 input and hex-encode

randomUUID(); // re-export crypto.randomUUID();

const key = await Key.generate();
const clearText = "hello world";
const hexCryptedWithIV = await encryptToHex(clearText, key);
const decrypted = await decryptFromHex(hexCryptedWithIV, key);
// clearText == decrypted