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In 2017, one ought to use browsers' native crypto API instead of doing crypto in js...


Just fyi on the native front our team recently started work on npm package webcrypto-crypt in conjunction with some experiments utilizing IPFS hypermedia and modern web browsers. Maybe others will find it useful: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webcrypto-crypt


Browsers have a native crypto API? Last I heard, websites requiring client side crypto used libraries written by other people. There's even a Node.js module for crypto.[0]

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/crypto-js





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