Secure sessionStorage or localStorage data with high level of encryption and data compression
npm install @cbcheng/secure-lsAES, DES, Rabbit and RC4. (defaults to Base64 encoding).
sessionStorage or localStorage to save extra bytes (defaults to true).
sessionStorage or localStorage API, providing other basic utilities.
sessionStorage or localStorage , and secure-ls will always remember it's creation.
$ npm install @cbcheng/secure-ls
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2. Import
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// ES6 module syntax
> import SecureLS from '@cbcheng/secure-ls';
// CommonJS syntax
> const SecureLS = require('@cbcheng/secure-ls');
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Libraries used
* Encryption / Decryption using The Cipher Algorithms
It requires secret-key for encrypting and decrypting data securely. If custom secret-key is provided as mentioned below in APIs, then the library will pick that otherwise it will generate yet another very secure unique password key using PBKDF2, which will be further used for future API requests.
PBKDF2 is a password-based key derivation function. In many applications of cryptography, user security is ultimately dependent on a password, and because a password usually can't be used directly as a cryptographic key, some processing is required.
A salt provides a large set of keys for any given password, and an iteration count increases the cost of producing keys from a password, thereby also increasing the difficulty of attack.
Eg: 55e8f5585789191d350329b9ebcf2b11 and db51d35aad96610683d5a40a70b20c39.
For the generation of such strings, secretPhrase is being used and can be found in code easily but that won't make it unsecure, PBKDF2's layer on top of that will handle security.
* Compresion / Decompression using lz-string
Usage
* Example 1: With default settings i.e. Base64 Encoding and Data Compression
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> var ls = new SecureLS();
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
{data: 'test'}
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* Example 2: With AES Encryption, sessionStorage and Data Compression
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> var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'aes'});
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
{data: 'test'}
> ls.set('key2', [1, 2, 3]); // set another key
> ls.getAllKeys(); // get all keys
["key1", "key2"]
> ls.removeAll(); // remove all keys
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* Example 3: With RC4 Encryption but no Data Compression
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> var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'rc4', isCompression: false});
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
{data: 'test'}
> ls.set('key2', [1, 2, 3]); // set another key
> ls.getAllKeys(); // get all keys
["key1", "key2"]
> ls.removeAll(); // remove all keys
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* Example 3: With DES Encryption, no Data Compression and custom secret key
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> var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'des', isCompression: false, encryptionSecret: 'my-secret-key'});
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
{data: 'test'}
> ls.set('key2', [1, 2, 3]); // set another key
> ls.getAllKeys(); // get all keys
["key1", "key2"]
> ls.removeAll(); // remove all keys
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* Example 4: set storage with sessionStorage or localStorage.
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> var ls = new SecureLS(); // default to use sessionStorage
> var ls = new SecureLS({storageType: 'sessionStorage'}); // use sessionStorage
> var ls = new SecureLS({storageType: 'localStorage'}); // use localStorage
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API Documentation
#### Create an instance / reference before using.
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var ls = new SecureLS();
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Contructor accepts a configurable Object with all three keys being optional.
| Config Keys | default | accepts |
| ------------------------ | -------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| encodingType | Base64 | base64/aes/des/rabbit/rc4/'' |
| isCompression | true | true/false |
| encryptionSecret | PBKDF2 value | String |
| encryptionNamespace | null | String |
| storageType | sessionStorage | String sessionStorage/localStorage |
Note: encryptionSecret will only be used for the Encryption and Decryption of data
with AES, DES, RC4, RABBIT, and the library will discard it if no encoding / Base64
encoding method is choosen.
encryptionNamespace is used to make multiple instances with different encryptionSecret
and/or different encryptionSecret possible.
var ls1 = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'des', encryptionSecret: 'my-secret-key-1'});
var ls2 = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'aes', encryptionSecret: 'my-secret-key-2'});
Examples:
* No config or empty Object i.e. Default Base64 Encoding and Data compression and sessionStorage
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var ls = new SecureLS();
// or
var ls = new SecureLS({});
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* No encoding No data compression i.e. Normal way of storing data
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var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: '', isCompression: false});
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* Base64 encoding but no data compression
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var ls = new SecureLS({isCompression: false});
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* AES encryption and data compression
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var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'aes'});
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* RC4 encryption and no data compression
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var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'rc4', isCompression: false});
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* RABBIT encryption, no data compression and custom encryptionSecret
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var ls = new SecureLS({encodingType: 'rc4', isCompression: false, encryptionSecret: 's3cr3tPa$$w0rd@123'});
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#### Methods
* set
Saves data in specifed key in localStorage. If the key is not provided, the library will warn. Following types of JavaScript objects are supported:
* Array
* ArrayBuffer
* Blob
* Float32Array
* Float64Array
* Int8Array
* Int16Array
* Int32Array
* Number
* Object
* Uint8Array
* Uint8ClampedArray
* Uint16Array
* Uint32Array
* String
| Parameter | Description |
| ------------- | --------------------------- |
| key | key to store data in |
| data | data to be stored |
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ls.set('key-name', {test: 'secure-ls'})
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* get
Gets data back from specified key from the localStorage library. If the key is not provided, the library will warn.
| Parameter | Description |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| key | key in which data is stored |
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ls.get('key-name')
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* remove
Removes the value of a key from the localStorage. If the meta key, which stores the list of keys, is tried to be removed even if there are other keys which were created by secure-ls library, the library will warn for the action.
| Parameter | Description |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| key | remove key in which data is stored |
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ls.remove('key-name')
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* removeAll
Removes all the keys that were created by the secure-ls library, even the meta key.
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ls.removeAll()
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* clear
Removes all the keys ever created for that particular domain. Remember localStorage works differently for http and https protocol;
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ls.clear()
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* getAllKeys
Gets the list of keys that were created using the secure-ls library. Helpful when data needs to be retrieved for all the keys or when keys name are not known(dynamically created keys).
getAllKeys()
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ls.getAllKeys()
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Contributing
1. Fork the repo on GitHub.
2. Clone the repo on machine.
3. Execute npm install and npm run dev.
3. Create a new branch and do your work.
4. Run npm run build to build dist files and npm run test to ensure all test cases are passing.
5. Commit your changes to the branch.
6. Submit a Pull request.
Development Stack
* Webpack based src compilation & bundling and dist generation.
* ES6 as a source of writing code.
* Exports in a umd format so the library works everywhere.
* ES6 test setup with Mocha and Chai.
* Linting with ESLint.
Process
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ES6 source files
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webpack
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+--- babel, eslint
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ready to use
library
in umd format
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