The cryptographic primitives (ECDSA and HMAC) implementations in this package have been reviewed on the upstream repository, no changes have been done since then, however, more audits and reviews are welcomed.
The helpcore.crypto.Random
namespace contains a single function, named getRandomBuffer(size)
that returns a Buffer
instance with random bytes. It may not work depending on the engine that Helpcore is running on (doesn't work with IE versions lesser than 11).
The helpcore.crypto.BN
class contains a wrapper around bn.js, the bignum library used internally in Helpcore.
The helpcore.crypto.Point
class contains a wrapper around the class Point of elliptic.js, the elliptic curve library used internally in Helpcore.
The helpcore.crypto.Hash
namespace contains a set of hashes and utilities. These are either the native crypto
hash functions from node.js
or their respective browser shims as provided by the browserify
library.
helpcore.crypto.ECDSA
contains a pure JavaScript implementation of the elliptic curve DSA signature scheme based on elliptic.js.