ECDH

external class ECDH(source)

The ECDH class is a utility for creating Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchanges.

Instances of the ECDH class can be created using the {@link createECDH} function.

import assert from 'node:assert';

const {
  createECDH,
} = await import('node:crypto');

// Generate Alice's keys...
const alice = createECDH('secp521r1');
const aliceKey = alice.generateKeys();

// Generate Bob's keys...
const bob = createECDH('secp521r1');
const bobKey = bob.generateKeys();

// Exchange and generate the secret...
const aliceSecret = alice.computeSecret(bobKey);
const bobSecret = bob.computeSecret(aliceKey);

assert.strictEqual(aliceSecret.toString('hex'), bobSecret.toString('hex'));
// OK

Since

v0.11.14

Constructors

ECDH

constructor()

Types

Companion

object Companion

Functions

computeSecret

fun computeSecret(otherPublicKey: ArrayBufferView): Buffer

Computes the shared secret using otherPublicKey as the other party's public key and returns the computed shared secret. The supplied key is interpreted using specified inputEncoding, and the returned secret is encoded using the specified outputEncoding. If the inputEncoding is not provided, otherPublicKey is expected to be a Buffer, TypedArray, or DataView.

fun computeSecret(otherPublicKey: ArrayBufferView, outputEncoding: BinaryToTextEncoding): String

fun computeSecret(otherPublicKey: String, inputEncoding: BinaryToTextEncoding): Buffer

fun computeSecret(otherPublicKey: String, inputEncoding: BinaryToTextEncoding, outputEncoding: BinaryToTextEncoding): String

generateKeys

fun generateKeys(): Buffer

Generates private and public EC Diffie-Hellman key values, and returns the public key in the specified format and encoding. This key should be transferred to the other party.

fun generateKeys(encoding: BinaryToTextEncoding, format: ECDHKeyFormat = definedExternally): String

getPrivateKey

fun getPrivateKey(): Buffer

If encoding is specified, a string is returned; otherwise a Buffer is returned.

fun getPrivateKey(encoding: BinaryToTextEncoding): String

getPublicKey

fun getPublicKey(encoding: Nothing? = definedExternally, format: ECDHKeyFormat = definedExternally): Buffer

The format argument specifies point encoding and can be 'compressed' or 'uncompressed'. If format is not specified the point will be returned in'uncompressed' format.

fun getPublicKey(encoding: BinaryToTextEncoding, format: ECDHKeyFormat = definedExternally): String

setPrivateKey

fun setPrivateKey(privateKey: ArrayBufferView)

Sets the EC Diffie-Hellman private key. If encoding is provided, privateKey is expected to be a string; otherwise privateKey is expected to be a Buffer, TypedArray, or DataView.

fun setPrivateKey(privateKey: String, encoding: BinaryToTextEncoding)