kdf-salt

🎲 Crypto secure salt generator

_{Coded with ❤️ by Simone Primarosa.}

Install

``bash
npm install --save @kdf/salt
`

Usage

`js
const gensalt = require('@kdf/salt');

gensalt(16).then(salt => {
console.log(salt);
// =>
console.log(salt.toString('base64'));
// => cCxuHMEHLibcglJOG88dIw==
console.log(salt.toString('hex'));
// => 702c6e1cc1072e26dc82524e1bcf1d23
})
`

API

$3

Generates a cryptographically secure random string to be used as a password salt
, using Node's built-in crypto.randomBytes() function.

Kind: global function
Returns: Promise.<Buffer> - The salt as a Buffer.
Access: public

| Param | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| length | number | The length of the salt to be generated. Must be an integer within the range (0 <= length <= 2^31-1`). |

Contributing

Contributions are REALLY welcome and if you find a security flaw in this code, PLEASE [report it][new issue].

Authors

- Simone Primarosa - Github ([@simonepri][github:simonepri]) • Twitter ([@simoneprimarosa][twitter:simoneprimarosa])

See also the list of [contributors][contributors] who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [license][license] file for details.

[new issue]: https://github.com/simonepri/node-kdf/issues/new
[contributors]: https://github.com/simonepri/node-kdf/contributors

[license]: https://github.com/simonepri/node-kdf/blob/master/packages/salt/license

[github:simonepri]: https://github.com/simonepri
[twitter:simoneprimarosa]: http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=simoneprimarosa