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Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers

Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers

By : Segala
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Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers

Essential Cryptography for JavaScript Developers

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By: Segala

Overview of this book

If you’re a software developer, this book will give you an introduction to cryptography, helping you understand how to make the most of it for your applications. The book contains extensive code samples in JavaScript, both for Node.js and for frontend apps running in a web browser, although the core concepts can be used by developers working with any programming language and framework. With a purely hands-on approach that is focused on sharing actionable knowledge, you’ll learn about the common categories of cryptographic operations that you can leverage in all apps you’re developing, including hashing, encryption with symmetric, asymmetric and hybrid ciphers, and digital signatures. You’ll learn when to use these operations and how to choose and implement the most popular algorithms to perform them, including SHA-2, Argon2, AES, ChaCha20-Poly1305, RSA, and Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Later, you’ll learn how to deal with password and key management. All code in this book is written in JavaScript and designed to run in Node.js or as part of frontend apps for web browsers. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build solutions that leverage cryptography to protect user privacy, offer better security against an expanding and more complex threat landscape, help meet data protection requirements, and unlock new opportunities.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Part 1 – Getting Started
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Part 2 – Using Common Cryptographic Operations with Node.js
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Part 3 – Cryptography in the Browser

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Cryptography for Developers, introduces the book by presenting the value that leveraging cryptography provides to developers, and then explains some core concepts used throughout all the chapters.

Chapter 2, Dealing with Binary and Random Data, demonstrates how binary data is managed in Node.js and how it is encoded to strings, as well as how to generate random sequences of bytes, all of which are operations frequently used when working with cryptography.

Chapter 3, File and Password Hashing with Node.js, is a practical overview of how to calculate digests of messages and files with Node.js with the SHA-2 family of functions, as well as how to hash passwords and derive keys with Argon2 and scrypt.

Chapter 4, Symmetric Encryption in Node.js, explains how to use symmetric ciphers such as AES and ChaCha20-Poly1305 with Node.js to encrypt messages and files.

Chapter 5, Using Asymmetric and Hybrid Encryption in Node.js, demonstrates using asymmetric cryptography to encrypt data with Node.js; this includes using RSA and hybrid encryption schemes based on RSA or Elliptic Curve Cryptography with ECIES.

Chapter 6, Digital Signatures with Node.js and Trust, includes both an introduction to calculating and verifying digital signatures with Node.js (using RSA or Elliptic Curve Cryptography) and an explanation of certificates and trust.

Chapter 7, Introduction to Cryptography in the Browser, explains the benefits and challenges of performing cryptography in the browser with JavaScript and includes an overview of dealing with binary and random data in frontend apps.

Chapter 8, Performing Common Cryptographic Operations in the Browser, demonstrates performing the cryptographic operations analyzed throughout the book in the context of apps running inside a web browser.

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