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Audited & minimal JS implementation of Salsa20, ChaCha and AES.
- 🔒 [**Audited**](#security) by an independent security firm
- 🔻 Tree-shakeable: unused code is excluded from your builds
- 🏎 Fast: hand-optimized for caveats of JS engines
- 🔍 Reliable: property-based / cross-library / wycheproof tests ensure correctness
- 💼 AES: ECB, CBC, CTR, CFB, GCM, SIV (nonce misuse-resistant), AESKW, AESKWP
- 💃 Salsa20, ChaCha, XSalsa20, XChaCha, ChaCha8, ChaCha12, Poly1305
- 🥈 Two AES implementations: pure JS or friendly wrapper around webcrypto
- 🪶 29KB (11KB gzipped) for everything, 7KB (3KB gzipped) for ChaCha build
Take a glance at [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-ciphers/discussions) for questions and support.
### This library belongs to _noble_ cryptography
> **noble cryptography** — high-security, easily auditable set of contained cryptographic libraries and tools.
- Zero or minimal dependencies
- Highly readable TypeScript / JS code
- PGP-signed releases and transparent NPM builds
- All libraries:
[ciphers](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-ciphers),
[curves](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-curves),
[hashes](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-hashes),
[post-quantum](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-post-quantum),
4kb [secp256k1](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-secp256k1) /
[ed25519](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-ed25519)
- [Check out homepage](https://paulmillr.com/noble/)
for reading resources, documentation and apps built with noble
## Usage
> `npm install @noble/ciphers`
> `deno add jsr:@noble/ciphers`
> `deno doc jsr:@noble/ciphers` # command-line documentation
We support all major platforms and runtimes.
For React Native, you may need a
[polyfill for getRandomValues](https://github.com/LinusU/react-native-get-random-values).
A standalone file
[noble-ciphers.js](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-ciphers/releases) is also available.
```ts
// import * from '@noble/ciphers'; // Error: use sub-imports, to ensure small app size
import { gcm, siv } from '@noble/ciphers/aes';
import { chacha20poly1305, xchacha20poly1305 } from '@noble/ciphers/chacha';
import { xsalsa20poly1305, secretbox } from '@noble/ciphers/salsa';
// Unauthenticated encryption: make sure to use HMAC or similar
import { ctr, cfb, cbc, ecb } from '@noble/ciphers/aes';
import { salsa20, xsalsa20 } from '@noble/ciphers/salsa';
import { chacha20, xchacha20, chacha8, chacha12 } from '@noble/ciphers/chacha';
import { aeskw, aeskwp } from '@noble/ciphers/aes'; // KW
import { bytesToHex, hexToBytes, bytesToUtf8, utf8ToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils';
import { managedNonce, randomBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
```
- [Examples](#examples)
- [XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption](#xchacha20-poly1305-encryption)
- [AES-256-GCM encryption](#aes-256-gcm-encryption)
- [AES: gcm, siv, ctr, cfb, cbc, ecb](#aes-gcm-siv-ctr-cfb-cbc-ecb)
- [Friendly WebCrypto AES](#friendly-webcrypto-aes)
- [AESKW and AESKWP](#aeskw-and-aeskwp)
- [Auto-handle nonces](#auto-handle-nonces)
- [Reuse array for input and output](#reuse-array-for-input-and-output)
- [Internals](#internals)
- [Implemented primitives](#implemented-primitives)
- [Which cipher should I pick?](#which-cipher-should-i-pick)
- [How to encrypt properly](#how-to-encrypt-properly)
- [Nonces](#nonces)
- [Encryption limits](#encryption-limits)
- [AES internals and block modes](#aes-internals-and-block-modes)
- [Security](#security)
- [Speed](#speed)
- [Upgrading](#upgrading)
- [Contributing & testing](#contributing--testing)
- [License](#license)
## Examples
> [!NOTE]
> Use different nonce every time `encrypt()` is done.
#### XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption
```js
import { xchacha20poly1305 } from '@noble/ciphers/chacha';
import { utf8ToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils';
import { randomBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
const key = randomBytes(32); // random key
// const key = new Uint8Array([ // existing key
// 169, 88, 160, 139, 168, 29, 147, 196, 14, 88, 237, 76, 243, 177, 109, 140,
// 195, 140, 80, 10, 216, 134, 215, 71, 191, 48, 20, 104, 189, 37, 38, 55,
// ]);
// import { hexToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils'; // hex key
// const key = hexToBytes('4b7f89bac90a1086fef73f5da2cbe93b2fae9dfbf7678ae1f3e75fd118ddf999');
const nonce = randomBytes(24);
const chacha = xchacha20poly1305(key, nonce);
const data = utf8ToBytes('hello, noble');
const ciphertext = chacha.encrypt(data);
const data_ = chacha.decrypt(ciphertext); // utils.bytesToUtf8(data_) === data
```
#### AES-256-GCM encryption
```js
import { gcm } from '@noble/ciphers/aes';
import { utf8ToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils';
import { randomBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
const key = randomBytes(32);
const nonce = randomBytes(24);
const data = utf8ToBytes('hello, noble');
const aes = gcm(key, nonce);
const ciphertext = aes.encrypt(data);
const data_ = aes.decrypt(ciphertext); // utils.bytesToUtf8(data_) === data
```
#### AES: gcm, siv, ctr, cfb, cbc, ecb
```js
import { gcm, siv, ctr, cfb, cbc, ecb } from '@noble/ciphers/aes';
import { randomBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
const plaintext = new Uint8Array(32).fill(16);
for (let cipher of [gcm, siv]) {
const key = randomBytes(32); // 24 for AES-192, 16 for AES-128
const nonce = randomBytes(12);
const ciphertext_ = cipher(key, nonce).encrypt(plaintext);
const plaintext_ = cipher(key, nonce).decrypt(ciphertext_);
}
for (const cipher of [ctr, cbc, cfb]) {
const key = randomBytes(32); // 24 for AES-192, 16 for AES-128
const nonce = randomBytes(16);
const ciphertext_ = cipher(key, nonce).encrypt(plaintext);
const plaintext_ = cipher(key, nonce).decrypt(ciphertext_);
}
for (const cipher of [ecb]) {
const key = randomBytes(32); // 24 for AES-192, 16 for AES-128
const ciphertext_ = cipher(key).encrypt(plaintext);
const plaintext_ = cipher(key).decrypt(ciphertext_);
}
```
#### Friendly WebCrypto AES
Noble implements AES. Sometimes people want to use built-in `crypto.subtle` instead. However, it has terrible API. We simplify access to built-ins.
> [!NOTE]
> Webcrypto methods are always async.
```js
import { gcm, ctr, cbc, randomBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
const plaintext = new Uint8Array(32).fill(16);
const key = randomBytes(32);
for (const cipher of [gcm]) {
const nonce = randomBytes(12);
const ciphertext_ = await cipher(key, nonce).encrypt(plaintext);
const plaintext_ = await cipher(key, nonce).decrypt(ciphertext_);
}
for (const cipher of [ctr, cbc]) {
const nonce = randomBytes(16);
const ciphertext_ = await cipher(key, nonce).encrypt(plaintext);
const plaintext_ = await cipher(key, nonce).decrypt(ciphertext_);
}
```
#### AESKW and AESKWP
```ts
import { aeskw, aeskwp } from '@noble/ciphers/aes';
import { hexToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils';
const kek = hexToBytes('000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F');
const keyData = hexToBytes('00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF');
const ciphertext = aeskw(kek).encrypt(keyData);
```
#### Auto-handle nonces
We provide API that manages nonce internally instead of exposing them to library's user.
For `encrypt`, a `nonceBytes`-length buffer is fetched from CSPRNG and prenended to encrypted ciphertext.
For `decrypt`, first `nonceBytes` of ciphertext are treated as nonce.
```js
import { xchacha20poly1305 } from '@noble/ciphers/chacha';
import { managedNonce } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
import { hexToBytes, utf8ToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils';
const key = hexToBytes('fa686bfdffd3758f6377abbc23bf3d9bdc1a0dda4a6e7f8dbdd579fa1ff6d7e1');
const chacha = managedNonce(xchacha20poly1305)(key); // manages nonces for you
const data = utf8ToBytes('hello, noble');
const ciphertext = chacha.encrypt(data);
const data_ = chacha.decrypt(ciphertext);
```
#### Reuse array for input and output
To avoid additional allocations, Uint8Array can be reused
between encryption and decryption calls.
> [!NOTE]
> Some ciphers don't support unaligned (`byteOffset % 4 !== 0`) Uint8Array as
> destination. It can decrease performance, making the optimization pointless.
```js
import { chacha20poly1305 } from '@noble/ciphers/chacha';
import { utf8ToBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/utils';
import { randomBytes } from '@noble/ciphers/webcrypto';
const key = randomBytes(32);
const nonce = randomBytes(12);
const chacha = chacha20poly1305(key, nonce);
const input = utf8ToBytes('hello, noble'); // length == 12
const inputLength = input.length;
const tagLength = 16;
const buf = new Uint8Array(inputLength + tagLength);
const start = buf.subarray(0, inputLength);
start.set(input); // copy input to buf
chacha.encrypt(start, buf); // encrypt into `buf`
chacha.decrypt(buf, start); // decrypt into `start`
```
xsalsa20poly1305 also supports this, but requires 32 additional bytes for encryption / decryption,
due to its inner workings.
## Internals
### Implemented primitives
- [Salsa20](https://cr.yp.to/snuffle.html) stream cipher, released in 2005.
Salsa's goal was to implement AES replacement that does not rely on S-Boxes,
which are hard to implement in a constant-time manner.
Salsa20 is usually faster than AES, a big deal on slow, budget mobile phones.
- [XSalsa20](https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/xsalsa-20110204.pdf), extended-nonce
variant was released in 2008. It switched nonces from 96-bit to 192-bit,
and became safe to be picked at random. - Nacl / Libsodium popularized term "secretbox", a simple black-box
authenticated encryption. Secretbox is just xsalsa20-poly1305. We provide the
alias and corresponding seal / open methods. We don't provide "box" or "sealedbox".
- Check out [PDF](https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/salsafamily-20071225.pdf) and
[wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20).
- [ChaCha20](https://cr.yp.to/chacha.html) stream cipher, released
in 2008. Developed after Salsa20, ChaCha aims to increase diffusion per round.
It was standardized in [RFC 8439](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8439)
and is now used in TLS 1.3.
- [XChaCha20](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-xchacha)
extended-nonce variant is also provided. Similar to XSalsa, it's safe to use with
randomly-generated nonces.
- Check out [PDF](http://cr.yp.to/chacha/chacha-20080128.pdf) and [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20).
- [AES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard)
is a variant of Rijndael block cipher, standardized by NIST in 2001.
We provide the fastest available pure JS implementation.
- We support AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256: the mode is selected dynamically,
based on key length (16, 24, 32).
- [AES-GCM-SIV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-GCM-SIV)
nonce-misuse-resistant mode is also provided. It's recommended to use it,
to prevent catastrophic consequences of nonce reuse. Our implementation of SIV
has the same speed as GCM: there is no performance hit.
- We also have AESKW and AESKWP from
[RFC 3394](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3394) / [RFC 5649](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5649)
- Check out [AES internals and block modes](#aes-internals-and-block-modes).
- We expose polynomial-evaluation MACs: [Poly1305](https://cr.yp.to/mac.html), AES-GCM's [GHash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode) and
AES-SIV's [Polyval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-GCM-SIV).
- Poly1305 ([PDF](https://cr.yp.to/mac/poly1305-20050329.pdf),
[wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly1305))
is a fast and parallel secret-key message-authentication code suitable for
a wide variety of applications. It was standardized in
[RFC 8439](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8439) and is now used in TLS 1.3.
- Polynomial MACs are not perfect for every situation:
they lack Random Key Robustness: the MAC can be forged, and can't
be used in PAKE schemes. See
[invisible salamanders attack](https://keymaterial.net/2020/09/07/invisible-salamanders-in-aes-gcm-siv/).
To combat invisible salamanders, `hash(key)` can be included in ciphertext,
however, this would violate ciphertext indistinguishability:
an attacker would know which key was used - so `HKDF(key, i)`
could be used instead.
- Format-preserving encryption algorithm (FPE-FF1) specified in NIST Special Publication 800-38G.
[See more info](https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-38G.pdf).
### Which cipher should I pick?
We suggest to use XChaCha20-Poly1305.
If you can't use it, prefer AES-GCM-SIV, or AES-GCM.
### How to encrypt properly
- Use unpredictable key with enough entropy
- Random key must be using cryptographically secure random number generator (CSPRNG), not `Math.random` etc.
- Non-random key generated from KDF is fine
- Re-using key is fine, but be aware of rules for cryptographic key wear-out and [encryption limits](#encryption-limits)
- Use new nonce every time and [don't repeat it](#nonces)
- chacha and salsa20 are fine for sequential counters that _never_ repeat: `01, 02...`
- xchacha and xsalsa20 should use random nonces instead
- AES-GCM should use 12-byte nonces: smaller nonces are security risk
- Prefer authenticated encryption (AEAD)
- chacha20poly1305 / aes-gcm / ChaCha + HMAC / AES + HMAC is good
- chacha20 / aes-ctr / aes-cbc without poly1305 or hmac is bad
- Flipping bits or ciphertext substitution won't be detected in unauthenticated ciphers
- Don't re-use keys between different protocols
- For example, using secp256k1 key in AES can be bad
- Use hkdf or, at least, a hash function to create sub-key instead
- If you need AES, only use AES-256 for new protocols
- For post-quantum security
### Nonces
Most ciphers need a key and a nonce (aka initialization vector / IV) to encrypt a data:
ciphertext = encrypt(plaintext, key, nonce)
Repeating (key, nonce) pair with different plaintexts would allow an attacker to decrypt it:
ciphertext_a = encrypt(plaintext_a, key, nonce)
ciphertext_b = encrypt(plaintext_b, key, nonce)
stream_diff = xor(ciphertext_a, ciphertext_b) # Break encryption
So, you can't repeat nonces. One way of doing so is using counters:
for i in 0..:
ciphertext[i] = encrypt(plaintexts[i], key, i)
Another is generating random nonce every time:
for i in 0..:
rand_nonces[i] = random()
ciphertext[i] = encrypt(plaintexts[i], key, rand_nonces[i])
Counters are OK, but it's not always possible to store current counter value:
e.g. in decentralized, unsyncable systems.
Randomness is OK, but there's a catch:
ChaCha20 and AES-GCM use 96-bit / 12-byte nonces, which implies higher chance of collision.
In the example above, `random()` can collide and produce repeating nonce.
Chance is even higher for 64-bit nonces, which GCM allows - don't use them.
To safely use random nonces, utilize XSalsa20 or XChaCha:
they increased nonce length to 192-bit, minimizing a chance of collision.
AES-SIV is also fine. In situations where you can't use eXtended-nonce
algorithms, key rotation is advised. hkdf would work great for this case.
### Encryption limits
A "protected message" would mean a probability of `2**-50` that a passive attacker
successfully distinguishes the ciphertext outputs of the AEAD scheme from the outputs
of a random function. See [draft-irtf-cfrg-aead-limits](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-aead-limits/) for details.
- Max message size:
- AES-GCM: ~68GB, `2**36-256`
- Salsa, ChaCha, XSalsa, XChaCha: ~256GB, `2**38-64`
- Max amount of protected messages, under same key:
- AES-GCM: `2**32.5`
- Salsa, ChaCha: `2**46`, but only integrity is affected, not confidentiality
- XSalsa, XChaCha: `2**72`
- Max amount of protected messages, across all keys:
- AES-GCM: `2**69/B` where B is max blocks encrypted by a key. Meaning
`2**59` for 1KB, `2**49` for 1MB, `2**39` for 1GB
- Salsa, ChaCha, XSalsa, XChaCha: `2**100`
##### AES internals and block modes
`cipher = encrypt(block, key)`. Data is split into 128-bit blocks. Encrypted in 10/12/14 rounds (128/192/256bit). Every round does:
1. **S-box**, table substitution
2. **Shift rows**, cyclic shift left of all rows of data array
3. **Mix columns**, multiplying every column by fixed polynomial
4. **Add round key**, round_key xor i-th column of array
For non-deterministic (not ECB) schemes, initialization vector (IV) is mixed to block/key;
and each new round either depends on previous block's key, or on some counter.
- ECB (Electronic Codebook): Deterministic encryption; identical plaintext blocks yield identical ciphertexts. Insecure due to pattern leakage.
See [AES Penguin](https://words.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/)
- CBC (Cipher Block Chaining): Each plaintext block is XORed with the previous ciphertext block before encryption.
Hard to use: requires proper padding and an IV. Needs a separate MAC.
- CTR (Counter Mode): Turns a block cipher into a stream cipher using a counter and IV (nonce).
Efficient and parallelizable. Requires a unique nonce per encryption. Better, but still needs a separate MAC.
- GCM (Galois/Counter Mode): Combines CTR mode with polynomial MAC. Efficient and widely used.
- SIV (Synthetic IV): Nonce-misuse-resistant mode; repeating nonces reveal only if plaintexts are identical.
Maintains security even if nonces are reused.
- XTS: Designed for disk encryption.
Similar to ECB (deterministic), but has `[i][j]` tweak arguments corresponding to sector i and 16-byte block (part of sector) j.
Lacks MAC.
GCM / SIV are not ideal:
- Conservative key wear-out is `2**32` (4B) msgs
- MAC can be forged: see Poly1305 section above. Same for SIV
## Security
The library has been independently audited:
- at version 1.0.0, in Sep 2024, by [cure53](https://cure53.de)
- PDFs: [website](https://cure53.de/audit-report_noble-crypto-libs.pdf), [in-repo](./audit/2024-09-cure53-audit-nbl4.pdf)
- [Changes since audit](https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-ciphers/compare/1.0.0..main)
- Scope: everything
- The audit has been funded by [OpenSats](https://opensats.org)
It is tested against property-based, cross-library and Wycheproof vectors,
and is being fuzzed in [the separate repo](https://github.com/paulmillr/fuzzing).
If you see anything unusual: investigate and report.
### Constant-timeness
We're targetting algorithmic constant time. _JIT-compiler_ and _Garbage Collector_ make "constant time"
extremely hard to achieve [timing attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack) resistance
in a scripting language. Which means _any other JS library can't have
constant-timeness_. Even statically typed Rust, a language without GC,
[makes it harder to achieve constant-time](https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/open-source/rust-timing-shield/security)
for some cases. If your goal is absolute security, don't use any JS lib — including bindings to native ones.
Use low-level libraries & languages.
The library uses T-tables for AES, which
[leak access timings](https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf).
This is also done in [OpenSSL](https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/2f33265039cdbd0e4589c80970e02e208f3f94d2/crypto/aes/aes_core.c#L706) and
[Go stdlib](https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.22.6:src/crypto/aes/const.go;l=90) for performance reasons.
The analysis was mentioned in [hal-04652991](https://hal.science/hal-04652991/document).
### Supply chain security
- **Commits** are signed with PGP keys, to prevent forgery. Make sure to verify commit signatures
- **Releases** are transparent and built on GitHub CI. Make sure to verify [provenance](https://docs.npmjs.com/generating-provenance-statements) logs
- Use GitHub CLI to verify single-file builds:
`gh attestation verify --owner paulmillr noble-ciphers.js`
- **Rare releasing** is followed to ensure less re-audit need for end-users
- **Dependencies** are minimized and locked-down: any dependency could get hacked and users will be downloading malware with every install.
- We make sure to use as few dependencies as possible
- Automatic dep updates are prevented by locking-down version ranges; diffs are checked with `npm-diff`
- **Dev Dependencies** are disabled for end-users; they are only used to develop / build the source code
For this package, there are 0 dependencies; and a few dev dependencies:
- micro-bmark, micro-should and jsbt are used for benchmarking / testing / build tooling and developed by the same author
- prettier, fast-check and typescript are used for code quality / test generation / ts compilation. It's hard to audit their source code thoroughly and fully because of their size
### Randomness
We're deferring to built-in
[crypto.getRandomValues](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto/getRandomValues)
which is considered cryptographically secure (CSPRNG).
In the past, browsers had bugs that made it weak: it may happen again.
Implementing a userspace CSPRNG to get resilient to the weakness
is even worse: there is no reliable userspace source of quality entropy.
## Speed
To summarize, noble is the fastest JS implementation of Salsa, ChaCha and AES.
You can gain additional speed-up and
avoid memory allocations by passing `output`
uint8array into encrypt / decrypt methods.
Benchmark results on Apple M4:
```
64B
xsalsa20poly1305 x 675,675 ops/sec @ 1μs/op
chacha20poly1305 x 568,181 ops/sec @ 1μs/op
xchacha20poly1305 x 460,617 ops/sec @ 2μs/op
aes-256-gcm x 201,126 ops/sec @ 4μs/op
aes-256-gcm-siv x 162,284 ops/sec @ 6μs/op
# Unauthenticated encryption
salsa20 x 1,655,629 ops/sec @ 604ns/op
xsalsa20 x 1,400,560 ops/sec @ 714ns/op
chacha20 x 1,996,007 ops/sec @ 501ns/op
xchacha20 x 1,404,494 ops/sec @ 712ns/op
chacha8 x 2,145,922 ops/sec @ 466ns/op
chacha12 x 2,036,659 ops/sec @ 491ns/op
aes-ecb-256 x 1,019,367 ops/sec @ 981ns/op
aes-cbc-256 x 931,966 ops/sec @ 1μs/op
aes-ctr-256 x 954,198 ops/sec @ 1μs/op
1MB
xsalsa20poly1305 x 322 ops/sec @ 3ms/op
chacha20poly1305 x 327 ops/sec @ 3ms/op
xchacha20poly1305 x 331 ops/sec @ 3ms/op
aes-256-gcm x 94 ops/sec @ 10ms/op
aes-256-gcm-siv x 90 ops/sec @ 11ms/op
# Unauthenticated encryption
salsa20 x 791 ops/sec @ 1ms/op
xsalsa20 x 801 ops/sec @ 1ms/op
chacha20 x 787 ops/sec @ 1ms/op
xchacha20 x 781 ops/sec @ 1ms/op
chacha8 x 1,457 ops/sec @ 686μs/op
chacha12 x 1,130 ops/sec @ 884μs/op
aes-ecb-256 x 289 ops/sec @ 3ms/op
aes-cbc-256 x 114 ops/sec @ 8ms/op
aes-ctr-256 x 127 ops/sec @ 7ms/op
# Wrapper over built-in webcrypto
webcrypto ctr-256 x 6,508 ops/sec @ 153μs/op
webcrypto cbc-256 x 1,820 ops/sec @ 549μs/op
webcrypto gcm-256 x 5,106 ops/sec @ 195μs/op
```
Compare to other implementations:
```
xsalsa20poly1305 (encrypt, 1MB)
├─tweetnacl x 196 ops/sec
└─noble x 305 ops/sec
chacha20poly1305 (encrypt, 1MB)
├─node x 1,668 ops/sec
├─stablelib x 202 ops/sec
└─noble x 319 ops/sec
aes-ctr-256 (encrypt, 1MB)
├─stablelib x 123 ops/sec
├─aesjs x 42 ops/sec
├─noble-webcrypto x 5,965 ops/sec
└─noble x 124 ops/sec
```
## Contributing & testing
- `npm install && npm run build && npm test` will build the code and run tests.
- `npm run lint` / `npm run format` will run linter / fix linter issues.
- `npm run bench` will run benchmarks, which may need their deps first (`npm run bench:install`)
- `npm run build:release` will build single file
Check out [github.com/paulmillr/guidelines](https://github.com/paulmillr/guidelines)
for general coding practices and rules.
See [paulmillr.com/noble](https://paulmillr.com/noble/)
for useful resources, articles, documentation and demos
related to the library.
## License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2023 Paul Miller [(https://paulmillr.com)](https://paulmillr.com)
Copyright (c) 2016 Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.org>
See LICENSE file.
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