thirdweb crypto

Secure, performant and cross-platform cryptography methods commonly used across other thirdweb packages.

Installation

npm install @thirdweb-dev/crypto

Available methods

Encryption

method	use case	return type	underlying technology
aesEncrypt(<plaintext>, <password>)	Encrypts a string/Uint8Array with AES-GCM	Promise<string>	WebCrypto (AES-GCM)
aesDecrypt(<ciphertext>, <password>)	Decrypts a value encrypted via aesEncrypt	Promise<string>	WebCrypto (AES-GCM)
aesDecryptCompat(<ciphertext>, <password>)	Same as aesDecrypt but also supports values encrypted via crypto-js (for backwards compatibility)	Promise<string>	WebCrypto (AES-GCM)

Hashing

method	use case	return type	underlying technology
sha256(<value>)	Hashes a string/Uint8Array with SHA256	Promise<Uint8Array>	WebCrypto
sha256Hex(<value>)	Same as sha256 but reruns as hex string	Promise<string>	WebCrypto
sha256Sync(<value>)	Same as sha256 but synchronous	Uint8Array	@noble/hashes
sha256SyncHex(<value>)	Same as sha256Sync but reruns as hex string	string	@noble/hashes
keccak256Sync(<value>)	Hashes a string/Uint8Array with Keccak256	Uint8Array	js-sha3
keccak256SyncHex(<value>)	Same as keccak256Sync but returns as hex string	string	js-sha3
keccak256SyncHexPrefixed(<value>)	Same as keccak256Sync but returns as 0x prefixed hex string	0x${string}	js-sha3

Initial Benchmarks

sha256 -> Uint8Array

┌──────────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐
│          Task Name           │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns)  │ Margin │ Samples │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤
│ @thirdweb-dev/crypto (async) │ 112,929 │ 8855.08539999982   │ ±1.37% │ 100000  │
│ @thirdweb-dev/crypto (sync)  │ 55,004  │ 18180.482820000594 │ ±1.02% │ 100000  │
│ crypto-js (sync)             │ 19,213  │ 52047.35353999857  │ ±0.25% │ 100000  │
└──────────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘

sha256 -> hex

┌──────────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐
│          Task Name           │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns)  │ Margin │ Samples │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤
│ @thirdweb-dev/crypto (async) │ 100,845 │ 9916.125730001713  │ ±1.24% │ 100000  │
│ @thirdweb-dev/crypto (sync)  │ 53,751  │ 18604.047449997142 │ ±0.92% │ 100000  │
│ crypto-js (sync)             │ 19,077  │ 52419.03465000334  │ ±0.24% │ 100000  │
└──────────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘

keccack256 -> Uint8Array

┌──────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐
│      Task Name       │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns)  │ Margin │ Samples │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤
│ @thirdweb-dev/crypto │ 72,533  │ 13786.719900000808 │ ±0.31% │ 100000  │
│ ethers@v5            │ 71,891  │ 13909.94663000107  │ ±0.33% │ 100000  │
│ @noble/hashes        │ 27,244  │ 36704.73226000136  │ ±0.19% │ 100000  │
│ viem                 │ 27,115  │ 36879.07953999698  │ ±0.26% │ 100000  │
└──────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘

keccack256 -> hex

┌──────────────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐
│      Task Name       │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns) │ Margin │ Samples │
├──────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤
│ @thirdweb-dev/crypto │ 42,947  │ 23284.22780000266 │ ±0.23% │ 100000  │
│ ethers@5             │ 35,568  │ 28114.98005000045 │ ±0.42% │ 100000  │
│ @noble/hashes        │ 15,149  │ 66009.80448000187 │ ±0.26% │ 100000  │
│ viem                 │ 15,217  │ 65714.15843999518 │ ±0.25% │ 100000  │
└──────────────────────┴─────────┴───────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘