nodejs crypto library in Ionic 4

Asked Feb 18 '19 at 05:50

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I am currently developing an Ionic 4 application and need to asymmetrically encrypt a small text string, I would like to use nodejs's crypto library to call crypto.privateDecrypt and crypto.publicEncrypt.

I have tried importing the crypto library to my Ionic application by adding the following to the top of my file: import * as crypto from 'crypto'; which half does the job. But as soon as I try to run the application on my Android phone I get the following error, error TS2307: Cannot find module 'crypto'

Does anyone know how to correctly include the crypto library in Ionic 4? I assume it is just not copying across to my device as the IntelliSense works perfectly and is picking up all the methods.

edited Feb 18 '19 at 05:57

asked Feb 18 '19 at 05:50

Tachyon

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did you try to explicitly call it?? like this `import { crypto } from 'crypto'` ?? – Dabees Feb 18 '19 at 05:56
I tried that as well, keep getting the error `error TS2307: Cannot find module 'crypto'` – Tachyon Feb 18 '19 at 05:58
can you check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9023672/how-do-i-resolve-cannot-find-module-error-using-node-js – Dabees Feb 18 '19 at 05:59
Tried that, no luck unfortunately. – Tachyon Feb 18 '19 at 06:09
did you ever find a solution? – Souleste Jul 25 '22 at 17:19
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@Souleste - I think I ended up using the web crypto API. `window.crypto.*` you can have a look at this repo which might help: https://github.com/diafygi/webcrypto-examples/ – Tachyon Jul 27 '22 at 07:50

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