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Argon2 for Deno

Argon2 encryption library for Deno.

It uses rust-argon2 under the hood.

Compatibility table

Library version Deno Version
0.6.0 1.0.0-1.0.3
0.7.0 1.0.5

API

  • hash(password: string, options?: HashOptions): Promise<string>

  • verify(hash: string, password: string): Promise<boolean>

Error handling

In case of error, all methods of this library will throw an Argon2Error type.

Usage

Library

import { assert } from "https://deno.land/std/testing/asserts.ts";
import { hash, verify } from "https://deno.land/x/argon2/lib/mod.ts";

let hash = await hash("test");

assert(await verify(hash, "test"));

Testing

import { Variant } from "https://deno.land/x/argon2/lib/mod.ts";
import { assertArgon2Encoded } from "https://deno.land/x/argon2/lib/testing.ts";

Deno.test("User#password should be an argon2id variant password", async () => {
  assertArgon2Encoded(user.password, {
    variant: Variant.Argon2id
  });
});

CLI

The library can be installed as a CLI tool via deno install.

Installation snippet
deno install \
  --allow-env \
  --allow-run \
  --allow-read \
  --allow-write \
  --allow-plugin \
  --allow-net \
  --unstable \
  argon2 https://deno.land/x/argon2/cli/argon2

After install run --help to inspect all possible commands.

Permissions

The library automatically download the static library and initialize Deno plugin via plugin_prepare and it requires --allow-read, --allow-write, --allow-net and --allow-plugin.

deno \
  --allow-read .deno_plugins \
  --allow-write .deno_plugins \
  --allow-net \
  --allow-plugin \
  --unstable \
  lib/mod.ts

Examples

In the examples/ folder there you can find some usage examples.

To run examples you must --allow-run since dev environment builds and initialize the Rust crate.

Available examples

Contributing

Project structure

deno-argon2
  ├── lib/      # Core library
  ├── native/   # Native glue code
  ├── cli/      # CLI wrapper
  ├── tests/    # TypeScript tests
  ├── benches/  # TypeScript benchmarks
  └── examples/ # Development examples

License

MIT