What is an alternative for bcrypt to use with node?

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Kory picture Kory · Nov 6, 2013 · Viewed 23.7k times · Source

I have tried for days to get bcrypt installed on my windows machine with no luck. One of the dependencies (Windows 7 SDK) does not want to be installed even though I have tried numerous suggestions from around the net it just refuses to cooperate.

I need a good alternative to bcrypt which does not have any dependencies.

Answer

enducat picture enducat · Nov 6, 2013

Check out https://npmjs.org/package/bcryptjs, it's fully compatible with bcrypt just without the dependencies.

Or https://npmjs.org/package/simplecrypt if you don't want the crypto boilerplate and just need to encrypt and decrypt strings.

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