crypto

Crypto stands for Cryptography. It provides functions for:

• Hashing: Creating a unique, fixed-size representation of data.
• HMAC: Creating a keyed-hash message authentication code.
• Encryption: Scrambling data to protect it from unauthorized access.
• Decryption: Reverting scrambled data back to its original form.
• Password Hashing: Securely hashing and verifying passwords using slow algorithms.
• Secretbox: High-level authenticated encryption for easy and safe data protection.

Crypto is not responsible for:

• Encoding (e.g., base64, hex)
  • Use the std/codec module
• Compression (e.g., lz4, zlib)
  • Use the std/cede module

Purpose

The crypto module provides essential cryptographic primitives for secure data handling, authentication, and integrity verification.

Use Cases

• Verifying data integrity via hashing
• Securely storing sensitive information
• Authenticating requests using HMAC
• Protecting data during transit