nodejs crypto module vs crypto-js

Mono picture Mono · Dec 13, 2012 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I'm quite new to NodeJs and trying to figure out how to use the "crypto" module. While playing around with it I notice the difference between the "crypto" module in NodeJs and crypto-js:

With crypto-js, I have:

function SHA256Hash(password, salt, iteration) {
    var saltedpassword = salt + password;
    var sha256 = CryptoJS.algo.SHA256.create();
    for(var i = 0; i < iteration; i++) {
            alert("saltedpassword = " + saltedpassword);
            sha256.update(saltedpassword);
            var saltedpassword = sha256.finalize();
            sha256.reset();
    }       
    return saltedpassword.toString(CryptoJS.enc.Base64);
}

Then call :

var hashedPassword = SHA256Hash("123456789", "ASIN", 3)

And receive :

saltedpassword = ASIN123456789
saltedpassword = 3362d80b757d14bfe18c01f6a003ed38a3a4a3dcab0417efb457b71740e21411
saltedpassword = 6020c992a9b7cd3ca9e95b9a3e21b64911edb7983b3dd77bdcecda19f2756987

With "crypto" module, I wrote:

function SHA256Hash(password, salt, iteration) {
    var saltedpassword = salt + password;
    for(var i = 0; i < iteration-1; i++) { 
            console.log("saltedpassword = "+saltedpassword)
            var sha256 = crypto.createHash('sha256');
            sha256.update(saltedpassword);
            var saltedpassword = sha256.digest('hex');
    }       
    console.log("saltedpassword = "+saltedpassword)
    var sha256 = crypto.createHash('sha256');
    sha256.update(saltedpassword);
    return sha256.digest('base64');
}

Then call:

var hashedPassword = SHA256Hash("123456789", "ASIN", 3);

And receive:

saltedpassword = ASIN123456789
saltedpassword = 3362d80b757d14bfe18c01f6a003ed38a3a4a3dcab0417efb457b71740e21411
saltedpassword = 4795d40ae8ae797f0ce51dfe4b496bca68f6d1f4a264f4ca52348ddd65a2988d

The first two items are the same but the third item is different. Did I miss out something ?

Edited: As I compare to the Jasypt, CryptoJs generates similar keys. My question is how to tune "crypto" module to make it generate the same keys as CryptoJS and Jasypt do.

Answer

Jeff M picture Jeff M · Dec 26, 2012

Apparently I can't add comments to freakish's answer, so I'll write it here instead:

reset() works fine. The significant difference is you're converting the hash output to a hex string within the iteration loop.