standard-ecies 

Standard ECIES (ecc encryption) implemention for NodeJS based on crypto module with no other dependencies.

Implementation

The implemention is followed by the description in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_Scheme .

Support all of curves listed in crypto.getCurves().

Usage

``javascript
// option parameter is optional, all options are optional except iv,
// when symmetric cipher is not in ecb mode, iv option must be offered.

// default option
const options = {
hashName: 'sha256',
hashLength: 32,
macName: 'sha256',
macLength: 32,
curveName: 'secp256k1',
symmetricCypherName: 'aes-128-ecb',
iv: null,
// iv is used in symmetric cipher, set null if the cipher does not need an
// initialization vector (e.g. a cipher in ecb mode). Set undefined if you
// want to use deprecated createCipheriv / createDecipher / EVP_BytesToKey
keyFormat: 'uncompressed',
s1: null, // optional shared information1
s2: null // optional shared information2
}
const ecdh = crypto.createECDH(options.curveName);
ecdh.generateKeys();

const plainText = Buffer.from('hello world');
const encryptedText = ecies.encrypt(ecdh.getPublicKey(), plainText, options);
const decryptedText = ecies.decrypt(ecdh, encryptedText, options);
assert(plainText.toString('hex') == decryptedText.toString('hex'));
`

Porting from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0


For the projects used this library with options.iv set to a valid iv buffer, no change is required to make compatible with 1.0.0. Other projects can set options.iv = undefined to make compatible with an older version.

In the version 1.0.0, it is advised to use a null iv for ECB mode ciphers, which will use crypto.createCipher -> EVP_BytesToKey to derive a key. However, as noted in the latest manual of EVP_BytesToKey that "Newer applications should use a more modern algorithm such as PBKDF2 as defined in PKCS#5v2.1 and provided by PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC", crypto.createCipher is deprecated by nodejs. Therefore, to avoid this library to use deprecated nodejs API by default, the behavior of options.iv == null` now is to use crypto.createCipheriv with an empty iv to create the cipher which, however, is incompatible with the cipher created by crypto.createCipher.