[hash] node.js hash string?

I have a string that I want to hash. What's the easiest way to generate the hash in node.js?

The hash is for versioning, not security.

sha256("string or binary");

I experienced issue with other answer. I advice you to set encoding argument to binary to use the byte string and prevent different hash between Javascript (NodeJS) and other langage/service like Python, PHP, Github...

If you don't use this code, you can get a different hash between NodeJS and Python...

How to get the same hash that Python, PHP, Perl, Github (and prevent an issue) :

NodeJS is hashing the UTF-8 representation of the string. Other languages (like Python, PHP or PERL...) are hashing the byte string.

We can add binary argument to use the byte string.

Code :

const crypto = require("crypto");

function sha256(data) {
    return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(data, "binary").digest("base64");
    //                                               ------  binary: hash the byte string
}

sha256("string or binary");

Documentation:

• crypto.createHash(algorithm[, options]): The algorithm is dependent on the available algorithms supported by the version of OpenSSL on the platform.
• hash.digest([encoding]): The encoding can be 'hex', 'latin1' or 'base64'. (base 64 is less longer).

You can get the issue with : sha256("\xac"), "\xd1", "\xb9", "\xe2", "\xbb", "\x93", etc...

• Other languages (like PHP, Python, Perl...) and my solution with .update(data, "binary") :

    sha1("\xac") //39527c59247a39d18ad48b9947ea738396a3bc47
  

• Nodejs by default (without binary) :

    sha1("\xac") //f50eb35d94f1d75480496e54f4b4a472a9148752
  

Considering the thoughts from http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/ (in short: FIRST encrypt, THEN authenticate. Afterwards FIRST verify, THEN decrypt) I have implemented the following solution in node.js:

function encrypt(text,password){
  var cipher = crypto.createCipher(algorithm,password)
  var crypted = cipher.update(text,'utf8','hex')
  crypted += cipher.final('hex');
  return crypted;
}

function decrypt(text,password){
  var decipher = crypto.createDecipher(algorithm,password)
  var dec = decipher.update(text,'hex','utf8')
  dec += decipher.final('utf8');
  return dec;
}

function hashText(text){
    var hash = crypto.createHash('md5').update(text).digest("hex");
    //console.log(hash); 
    return hash;
}

function encryptThenAuthenticate(plainText,pw)
{
    var encryptedText = encrypt(plainText,pw);
    var hash = hashText(encryptedText);
    return encryptedText+"$"+hash;
}
function VerifyThenDecrypt(encryptedAndAuthenticatedText,pw)
{
    var encryptedAndHashArray = encryptedAndAuthenticatedText.split("$");
    var encrypted = encryptedAndHashArray[0];
    var hash = encryptedAndHashArray[1];
    var hash2Compare = hashText(encrypted);
    if (hash === hash2Compare)
    {
        return decrypt(encrypted,pw); 
    }
}

It can be tested with:

var doom = encryptThenAuthenticate("The encrypted text",user.cryptoPassword);
console.log(VerifyThenDecrypt(doom,user.cryptoPassword));

Hope this helps :-)

Even if the hash is not for security, you can use sha instead of md5. In my opinion, the people should forget about md5 for now, it's in the past!

The normal nodejs sha256 is deprecated. So, you have two alternatives for now:

var shajs = require('sha.js')  - https://www.npmjs.com/package/sha.js (used by Browserify)

var hash = require('hash.js')  - https://github.com/indutny/hash.js

I prefer using shajs instead of hash, because I consider sha the best hash function nowadays and you don't need a different hash function for now. So to get some hash in hex you should do something like the following:

sha256.update('hello').digest('hex')

Node's crypto module API is still unstable.

As of version 4.0.0, the native Crypto module is not unstable anymore. From the official documentation:

Crypto

Stability: 2 - Stable

The API has proven satisfactory. Compatibility with the npm ecosystem is a high priority, and will not be broken unless absolutely necessary.

So, it should be considered safe to use the native implementation, without external dependencies.

For reference, the modules mentioned bellow were suggested as alternative solutions when the Crypto module was still unstable.

You could also use one of the modules sha1 or md5 which both do the job.

$ npm install sha1

and then

var sha1 = require('sha1');

var hash = sha1("my message");

console.log(hash); // 104ab42f1193c336aa2cf08a2c946d5c6fd0fcdb

or

$ npm install md5

and then

var md5 = require('md5');

var hash = md5("my message");

console.log(hash); // 8ba6c19dc1def5702ff5acbf2aeea5aa

(MD5 is insecure but often used by services like Gravatar.)

The API of these modules won't change!

I use blueimp-md5 which is "Compatible with server-side environments like Node.js, module loaders like RequireJS, Browserify or webpack and all web browsers."

Use it like this:

var md5 = require("blueimp-md5");

var myHashedString = createHash('GreensterRox');

createHash(myString){
    return md5(myString);
}

If passing hashed values around in the open it's always a good idea to salt them so that it is harder for people to recreate them:

createHash(myString){
    var salt = 'HnasBzbxH9';
    return md5(myString+salt);
}

you can use crypto-js javaScript library of crypto standards, there is easiest way to generate sha256 or sha512

const SHA256 = require("crypto-js/sha256");
const SHA512 = require("crypto-js/sha512");

let password = "hello"
let hash_256 = SHA256 (password).toString();
let hash_512 = SHA512 (password).toString();

Here you can benchmark all supported hashes on your hardware, supported by your version of node.js. Some are cryptographic, and some is just for a checksum. Its calculating "Hello World" 1 million times for each algorithm. It may take around 1-15 seconds for each algorithm (Tested on the Standard Google Computing Engine with Node.js 4.2.2).

for(var i1=0;i1<crypto.getHashes().length;i1++){
  var Algh=crypto.getHashes()[i1];
  console.time(Algh);
  for(var i2=0;i2<1000000;i2++){
    crypto.createHash(Algh).update("Hello World").digest("hex");
  }
  console.timeEnd(Algh);  
}

Result:
DSA: 1992ms
DSA-SHA: 1960ms
DSA-SHA1: 2062ms
DSA-SHA1-old: 2124ms
RSA-MD4: 1893ms
RSA-MD5: 1982ms
RSA-MDC2: 2797ms
RSA-RIPEMD160: 2101ms
RSA-SHA: 1948ms
RSA-SHA1: 1908ms
RSA-SHA1-2: 2042ms
RSA-SHA224: 2176ms
RSA-SHA256: 2158ms
RSA-SHA384: 2290ms
RSA-SHA512: 2357ms
dsaEncryption: 1936ms
dsaWithSHA: 1910ms
dsaWithSHA1: 1926ms
dss1: 1928ms
ecdsa-with-SHA1: 1880ms
md4: 1833ms
md4WithRSAEncryption: 1925ms
md5: 1863ms
md5WithRSAEncryption: 1923ms
mdc2: 2729ms
mdc2WithRSA: 2890ms
ripemd: 2101ms
ripemd160: 2153ms
ripemd160WithRSA: 2210ms
rmd160: 2146ms
sha: 1929ms
sha1: 1880ms
sha1WithRSAEncryption: 1957ms
sha224: 2121ms
sha224WithRSAEncryption: 2290ms
sha256: 2134ms
sha256WithRSAEncryption: 2190ms
sha384: 2181ms
sha384WithRSAEncryption: 2343ms
sha512: 2371ms
sha512WithRSAEncryption: 2434ms
shaWithRSAEncryption: 1966ms
ssl2-md5: 1853ms
ssl3-md5: 1868ms
ssl3-sha1: 1971ms
whirlpool: 2578ms

If you just want to md5 hash a simple string I found this works for me.

var crypto = require('crypto');
var name = 'braitsch';
var hash = crypto.createHash('md5').update(name).digest('hex');
console.log(hash); // 9b74c9897bac770ffc029102a200c5de

The crypto module makes this very easy.

Setup:

// import crypto from 'crypto';
const crypto = require('crypto');

const sha256 = x => crypto.createHash('sha256').update(x, 'utf8').digest('hex');

Usage:

sha256('Hello, world. ');

function md5(a) {
    var r = 0,
        c = "";
    return h(a);

    function h(t) {
        return u(l(m(t)))
    }

    function l(t) {
        return p(g(f(t), 8 * t.length))
    }

    function u(t) {
        for (var e, i = r ? "0123456789ABCDEF" : "0123456789abcdef", n = "", o = 0; o < t.length; o++)
            e = t.charCodeAt(o),
            n += i.charAt(e >>> 4 & 15) + i.charAt(15 & e);
        return n
    }

    function m(t) {
        for (var e, i, n = "", o = -1; ++o < t.length;)
            e = t.charCodeAt(o),
            i = o + 1 < t.length ? t.charCodeAt(o + 1) : 0,
            55296 <= e && e <= 56319 && 56320 <= i && i <= 57343 && (e = 65536 + ((1023 & e) << 10) + (1023 & i),
                o++),
            e <= 127 ? n += String.fromCharCode(e) : e <= 2047 ? n += String.fromCharCode(192 | e >>> 6 & 31, 128 | 63 & e) : e <= 65535 ? n += String.fromCharCode(224 | e >>> 12 & 15, 128 | e >>> 6 & 63, 128 | 63 & e) : e <= 2097151 && (n += String.fromCharCode(240 | e >>> 18 & 7, 128 | e >>> 12 & 63, 128 | e >>> 6 & 63, 128 | 63 & e));
        return n
    }

    function f(t) {
        for (var e = Array(t.length >> 2), i = 0; i < e.length; i++)
            e[i] = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < 8 * t.length; i += 8)
            e[i >> 5] |= (255 & t.charCodeAt(i / 8)) << i % 32;
        return e
    }

    function p(t) {
        for (var e = "", i = 0; i < 32 * t.length; i += 8)
            e += String.fromCharCode(t[i >> 5] >>> i % 32 & 255);
        return e
    }

    function g(t, e) {
        t[e >> 5] |= 128 << e % 32,
            t[14 + (e + 64 >>> 9 << 4)] = e;
        for (var i = 1732584193, n = -271733879, o = -1732584194, s = 271733878, a = 0; a < t.length; a += 16) {
            var r = i,
                c = n,
                h = o,
                l = s;
            n = E(n = E(n = E(n = E(n = N(n = N(n = N(n = N(n = C(n = C(n = C(n = C(n = S(n = S(n = S(n = S(n, o = S(o, s = S(s, i = S(i, n, o, s, t[a + 0], 7, -680876936), n, o, t[a + 1], 12, -389564586), i, n, t[a + 2], 17, 606105819), s, i, t[a + 3], 22, -1044525330), o = S(o, s = S(s, i = S(i, n, o, s, t[a + 4], 7, -176418897), n, o, t[a + 5], 12, 1200080426), i, n, t[a + 6], 17, -1473231341), s, i, t[a + 7], 22, -45705983), o = S(o, s = S(s, i = S(i, n, o, s, t[a + 8], 7, 1770035416), n, o, t[a + 9], 12, -1958414417), i, n, t[a + 10], 17, -42063), s, i, t[a + 11], 22, -1990404162), o = S(o, s = S(s, i = S(i, n, o, s, t[a + 12], 7, 1804603682), n, o, t[a + 13], 12, -40341101), i, n, t[a + 14], 17, -1502002290), s, i, t[a + 15], 22, 1236535329), o = C(o, s = C(s, i = C(i, n, o, s, t[a + 1], 5, -165796510), n, o, t[a + 6], 9, -1069501632), i, n, t[a + 11], 14, 643717713), s, i, t[a + 0], 20, -373897302), o = C(o, s = C(s, i = C(i, n, o, s, t[a + 5], 5, -701558691), n, o, t[a + 10], 9, 38016083), i, n, t[a + 15], 14, -660478335), s, i, t[a + 4], 20, -405537848), o = C(o, s = C(s, i = C(i, n, o, s, t[a + 9], 5, 568446438), n, o, t[a + 14], 9, -1019803690), i, n, t[a + 3], 14, -187363961), s, i, t[a + 8], 20, 1163531501), o = C(o, s = C(s, i = C(i, n, o, s, t[a + 13], 5, -1444681467), n, o, t[a + 2], 9, -51403784), i, n, t[a + 7], 14, 1735328473), s, i, t[a + 12], 20, -1926607734), o = N(o, s = N(s, i = N(i, n, o, s, t[a + 5], 4, -378558), n, o, t[a + 8], 11, -2022574463), i, n, t[a + 11], 16, 1839030562), s, i, t[a + 14], 23, -35309556), o = N(o, s = N(s, i = N(i, n, o, s, t[a + 1], 4, -1530992060), n, o, t[a + 4], 11, 1272893353), i, n, t[a + 7], 16, -155497632), s, i, t[a + 10], 23, -1094730640), o = N(o, s = N(s, i = N(i, n, o, s, t[a + 13], 4, 681279174), n, o, t[a + 0], 11, -358537222), i, n, t[a + 3], 16, -722521979), s, i, t[a + 6], 23, 76029189), o = N(o, s = N(s, i = N(i, n, o, s, t[a + 9], 4, -640364487), n, o, t[a + 12], 11, -421815835), i, n, t[a + 15], 16, 530742520), s, i, t[a + 2], 23, -995338651), o = E(o, s = E(s, i = E(i, n, o, s, t[a + 0], 6, -198630844), n, o, t[a + 7], 10, 1126891415), i, n, t[a + 14], 15, -1416354905), s, i, t[a + 5], 21, -57434055), o = E(o, s = E(s, i = E(i, n, o, s, t[a + 12], 6, 1700485571), n, o, t[a + 3], 10, -1894986606), i, n, t[a + 10], 15, -1051523), s, i, t[a + 1], 21, -2054922799), o = E(o, s = E(s, i = E(i, n, o, s, t[a + 8], 6, 1873313359), n, o, t[a + 15], 10, -30611744), i, n, t[a + 6], 15, -1560198380), s, i, t[a + 13], 21, 1309151649), o = E(o, s = E(s, i = E(i, n, o, s, t[a + 4], 6, -145523070), n, o, t[a + 11], 10, -1120210379), i, n, t[a + 2], 15, 718787259), s, i, t[a + 9], 21, -343485551),
                i = v(i, r),
                n = v(n, c),
                o = v(o, h),
                s = v(s, l)
        }
        return [i, n, o, s]
    }

    function _(t, e, i, n, o, s) {
        return v((a = v(v(e, t), v(n, s))) << (r = o) | a >>> 32 - r, i);
        var a, r
    }

    function S(t, e, i, n, o, s, a) {
        return _(e & i | ~e & n, t, e, o, s, a)
    }

    function C(t, e, i, n, o, s, a) {
        return _(e & n | i & ~n, t, e, o, s, a)
    }

    function N(t, e, i, n, o, s, a) {
        return _(e ^ i ^ n, t, e, o, s, a)
    }

    function E(t, e, i, n, o, s, a) {
        return _(i ^ (e | ~n), t, e, o, s, a)
    }

    function v(t, e) {
        var i = (65535 & t) + (65535 & e);
        return (t >> 16) + (e >> 16) + (i >> 16) << 16 | 65535 & i
    }
}
string = 'hello';
console.log(md5(string));

Simple One Liners:

If you want UTF8 text hash:

const hash = require('crypto').createHash('sha256').update('Hash me', 'utf8').digest('hex');

If you want to get the same hash with Python, PHP, Perl, Github:

const hash = require('crypto').createHash('sha256').update('Hash me', 'binary').digest('hex');

You can also replace 'sha256' with 'sha1', 'md5', 'sha256', 'sha512'