secure-string

Text that should be kept confidential

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Features

• The text is stored in an encrypted buffer
• The plain text is only available in a callback
• Prompting the user for a secure string

Getting started

secure-string is available for Node.js and the browser. Most modern browsers are supported. If you want to know if your browser is compatible, run the online test suite.

Install with npm

> npm install secure-string --save

Usage

const SecureString = require('secure-string')
 
const password = new SecureString()
password.appendCodePoint(0x41)
password.value(plainText => {
  console.log('the passowrd is', plainText.toString())
})

See the spec for more examples.

Ask

SecureString.ask prompts the user for some data

const SecureString = require('secure-string')
 
SecureString.ask('password', (err, answer) => {
  if (err) return console.log(err)
  answer.value(plainText => {
    console.log('the passowrd is', plainText.toString())
  })
})

Browser

Include the package from the unpkg CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/secure-string/dist/bundle.min"></script>

This creates SecureString as a global object, or define it if you are using AMD.

License

The MIT license.

Copyright © 2017 Richard Schneider (makaretu@gmail.com)