Mastering Cryptography Fundamentals with Node’s crypto module
summary
Node’s built‑in crypto module sits on OpenSSL and exposes a large surface like getCiphers which returns 171 algorithms on one machine and specific APIs for AES-256-CBC with random IVs, createCipheriv/createDecipheriv, randomBytes/randomFill/randomInt/randomUUID, scrypt and hkdf and pbkdf2 for KDFs, generateKeyPair plus publicEncrypt/privateDecrypt for RSA, ECDH support, crypto.sign/verify, X509 parsing for certificate chains, and many async functions that are callback based so developers need to promisify them.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to cryptography
- 3:13Encryption basics with Node
- 10:55Key derivation functions
- 15:50Generating secure random data
- 16:54Key distribution problem
- 20:27Asymmetric encryption with RSA
- 21:53Signing and verifying messages
- 23:19Real-world crypto applications
- 25:06Trusting public keys
- 28:41Certificate chains explained
- 29:21Summary and resources
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