digitalbazaar/forge

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases no_license

Adoption not part of the score

5330 stars · 859 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Forge is a pure-JavaScript implementation of the TLS protocol plus a broad set of cryptographic utilities including AES, RSA, X.509 certificates, PKCS standards, ASN.1, and message digests. It runs in both Node.js and browsers and is designed for building crypto-heavy, network-oriented web applications.

Use cases

• generate x509 certificates in javascript
• implement tls in the browser
• create pkcs12 or pkcs7 bundles in node
• parse asn1 structures in javascript
• generate rsa keys and csr in the browser
• compute sha256 hmac digests without native crypto
• encrypt and decrypt aes in a webapp

When to choose

• you need TLS or PKI operations in pure JavaScript without native dependencies
• you must generate or parse certificates, CSRs, or PKCS structures in Node or the browser
• you need broad crypto primitives (AES, RSA, digests, ASN.1) in one library

When to avoid

• you only need standard hashing or TLS in Node.js - use the built-in crypto module instead
• you need side-channel-resistant, audited crypto for production secrets - prefer native/WebCrypto implementations
• you need post-quantum or modern AEAD-only workflows better served by libsodium

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

cryptography security serialization http-client security web-development developer-tools browser tls x509 pki asn1 aes rsa pkcs hmac sha256 certificates csr pure-javascript nodejs javascript

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="digitalbazaar/forge")