jsHashes

A fast and independent hashing library pure JavaScript implemented for both server and client side

About

jsHashes is a pure JavaScript implementation of the most extended hash algorithms. Its goal is to provide an independent, fast and easy solution for hash algorithms both for client-side and server-side JavaScript environments. The code is fully compatible with the ECMAScript language specification and was tested in all major browsers (client-side) and node.js (server-side).

Supported hash algorithms

MD5 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt)
SHA1 (http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm)
SHA256 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2.pdf)
SHA512 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2.pdf)
HMAC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2104.txt)
RIPEMD-160 (http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html)

Aditional functionalities

Base64 encoding/decoding (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3548)
CRC-32 calculation
UTF-8 encoding/decoding

Environments

Browser (ES5)
Node.js (all versions)
Rhino
RingoJS

Usage

Following some software design patterns, jsHashes implements an object-oriented class-based paradigm for an easy and clean use. Each algorithm has its respective own class, providing encapsulation and independence from other classes.

All the classes are defined inside the Hashes Object namespace.

Here you can see an example of how to create a new instance for each algorithm:

// new MD5 instance
var MD5 = new Hashes.MD5;
// new SHA1 instance
var SHA1 = new Hashes.SHA1;
// new SHA256 instance
var SHA256 =  new Hashes.SHA256;
// new SHA512 instace
var SHA512 = new Hashes.SHA512;
// new RIPEMD-160 instace
var RMD160 = new Hashes.RMD160;

Now, an example of how to output an hexadecimal-based hash encoding for each algorithm (client-side):

// sample string
var str = 'Sample text!';
// output to console
console.log('MD5: ' + MD5.hex(str));
console.log('SHA1: ' + SHA1.hex(str));
console.log('SHA256: ' + SHA256.hex(str));
console.log('SHA512: ' + SHA512.hex(str));
console.log('RIPEMD-160: ' + RMD160.hex(str));

Client-Side

This is a simple implementation for a client-side environment:

<html>
<head>
<script type="application/javascript" src="src/hashes.js"></script>
<script type="application/javascript">
// sample string 
var str = 'This is a sample text!';
// new MD5 instance and hexadecimal string encoding
var MD5 = new Hashes.MD5().hex(str);
// output into DOM
document.write('<p>MD5: <b>' + MD5 + '</b></p>');
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Module

The library was builded using the CommonJS module standard, so the same code works in Node.

jsHashes is available via NPM. You can install it simply doing:

$ npm install jshashes

Aditionaly, you can get jsHashes using Bower or Jam package managers.

$ bower install jshashes

$ jam install jshashes

A Node.js example:

// require the module
var Hashes = require('jshashes');
// sample string
var str = 'This is a sample text!';
// new SHA1 instance and base64 string encoding
var SHA1 = new Hashes.SHA1().b64(str);
// output to console
console.log('SHA1: ' + SHA1);

Public methods

Each algorithm class provides the following public methods:

hex(string) - Hexadecimal hash encoding from string.
b64(string) - Base64 hash encondig from string.
any(string,encoding) - Custom hash algorithm values encoding.
hex_hmac(key,string) - Hexadecimal hash with HMAC salt key.
b64_hmac(key,string) - Base64 hash with HMAC salt key.
any_hmac(key,string,encoding) - Custom hash values encoding with HMAC salt key support.
vm_test() - Simple self-test to see is working. Returns this Object.
setUpperCase(boolean) - Enable/disable uppercase hexadecimal returned string. Returns this Object.
setPad(string) - Defines a custom base64 pad string. Default is '=' according with the RFC standard. Returns this Object.
setUTF8(boolean) - Enable/disable UTF-8 character encoding. Returns this Object.

Hash encoding formats supported

Hexadecimal (most extended)
Base64
Custom hash values any() method

Benchmark

Node.js 0.6.18 running on a VPS Intel I7 930 with 512 MB of RAM (see server/benchmark.js)

Simple benchmark test generating 10000 hashes for each algorithm.
String: "A0gTtNtKh3RaduBfIo59ZdfTc5pTdOQrkxdZ5EeVOIZh1cXxqPyexKZBg6VlE1KzIz6pd6r1LLIpT5B8THRfcGvbJElwhWBi9ZAE"

* MD5
** Done in: 205 miliseconds
* SHA1
** Done in: 277 miliseconds
* SHA256
** Done in: 525 miliseconds
* SHA512
** Done in: 593 miliseconds
* RMD160
** Done in: 383 miliseconds

See client/benchmark.html for client-side.

Notes

Don't support checksum hash for files on the server-side, only strings-based inputs are supported.
It has not been planned to include support for more hash algorithms.
The goal is to provide the same JavaScript code in both server and client side, so it isn't planned to improve it in other ways.
Only Node.js server-side was tested, so with minimal changes, you can setup jsHashes in other server-side JS environment.

Changelog

1.0.3
- Important bugfixes to UTF-8 encoding (broken in 1.0.2) and the RIPEMD-160 hash (broken in 1.0.1). (gh #6)
- New test suite for hashes, CRC32, and hmac; run with 'npm test' in node.
- Fixed global variable leaks. (gh #13)
- CRC32 will now always return positive values. (gh #11)
- Added package version property to the exposed Hashes Object
- Updated CLI script utility (bin/hashes)
1.0.2
- Performance improvements and minimal refactor (length property caching, literal notation)
- Available from Bower package manager
1.0.1
- Refactoring (hoisting, coercion, removed redundant functions, scoping, restructure...)
- Performance improves
- JSLint validation (except bitwise operators)
- Now the library can be used like a AMD CommonJS module
- Updated documentation
- New folders structure
- Added closure compiled and minimized library version
- Available from Jam package manager
0.1.5b
- Added index.js for easy call the module in Node.js
- Updated documentation
0.1.4b
- Now declaring objects using Literal Notation.
- Solved sintax errors on minimized version (jshashes.min.js)
- Added benchmark test and sample
0.1.3b
- Starting non-redundancy code refactorization
- Added Helpers Object with some global functions
- Added native support for Base64 provided as class
- Added CRC-32 calculation support
- Added URL encode/decode helpers functions
0.1.2b
- SHA1 error fixed.
- General code changes (renaming classes, private methods, new methods...).
- Changing library namespace to 'Hashes'.
- Starting code documentation.
- Added new examples of how to use.
0.1.1b
- Minimal library improvements.
- There has been added some samples, like how to use it and support for NPM package.
0.1.0b
- First release: the code is stable, but the library is still beta and must be improved and documented.

TODO

Performance benchmarking
Testing (in process)

Authors

Library author

Tomas Aparicio

Original algorithm authors

Paul Johnston
Angel Marin (SHA256)
Jeremy Lin (RIPEMD-160)

Other contributors

C. Scott Ananian
Greg Holt
Andrew Kepert
Ydnar
Lostinet

License

jsHashes is released under New BSD license. See LICENSE file.

Issues

Feel free to report any issue you experiment via Github https://github.com/h2non/jsHashes/issues.

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