Fixed a crash occurring for any encrypted communication when running NodeJs 17 on linux based machines #3046
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♻️ Current situation
As reported in homebridge/HAP-NodeJS#916 (and #2999), nodejs v17 ships with OpenSSL 3 on linux machines which require 96 bits nonce length for chacha20-poly1305 (OpneSSL 1.x did automatically fill up with zeros).
This is the PR for release 1.3.9 and is available as a beta release already.
💡 Proposed solution
This PR upgrades the
HAP-NodeJS
library with an according fix in the crypto handling.⚙️ Release Notes
➕ Additional Information
Testing
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