brix/crypto-js

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

CryptoJS is a JavaScript library implementing standard cryptographic algorithms such as AES, DES, MD5, SHA family hashes, HMAC, and PBKDF2, usable in Node.js and browsers. Its development has been officially discontinued in favor of the native Web Crypto / Node.js crypto modules.

Use cases

• hash strings with sha256 or md5 in javascript
• encrypt and decrypt data with aes in the browser
• compute hmac signatures for api request signing
• base64 encode and decode strings
• derive keys with pbkdf2 in node.js
• legacy javascript crypto for older environments

When to choose

• maintaining a legacy codebase that already depends on crypto-js
• you need a pure-JS crypto implementation without native module access
• quick hashing or encoding in environments lacking the native crypto module

When to avoid

• starting a new project - use the native Web Crypto API or Node.js crypto module instead
• you need actively maintained code with security patches
• high-performance or side-channel-resistant cryptographic operations

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

cryptography security security web-development developer-tools browser cross-platform hashing encryption aes sha256 hmac md5 encoding discontinued nodejs

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