noble-hashes

Audited & minimal JS implementation of SHA2, SHA3, RIPEMD, BLAKE2/3, HMAC, HKDF, PBKDF2 & Scrypt.

🔒 Audited by an independent security firm
🔻 Tree-shaking-friendly: use only what's necessary, other code won't be included
🏎 Ultra-fast, hand-optimized for caveats of JS engines
🔍 Unique tests ensure correctness: chained tests, sliding window tests, DoS tests, fuzzing
🔁 No unrolled loops: makes it easier to verify and reduces source code size up to 5x
🐢 Scrypt supports N: 2**22, while other implementations are limited to 2**20
🦘 SHA3 supports Keccak, TupleHash, KangarooTwelve and MarsupilamiFourteen
🪶 Just 3.4k lines / 17KB gzipped. SHA256-only is 240 lines / 3KB gzipped

The library's initial development was funded by Ethereum Foundation.

This library belongs to noble crypto

noble-crypto — high-security, easily auditable set of contained cryptographic libraries and tools.

No dependencies, protection against supply chain attacks
Auditable TypeScript / JS code
Supported in all major browsers and stable node.js versions
All releases are signed with PGP keys
Check out homepage & all libraries: curves (4kb versions secp256k1, ed25519), hashes

Usage

npm install @noble/hashes

We support all major platforms and runtimes. For Deno, ensure to use npm specifier. For React Native, you may need a polyfill for getRandomValues. If you don't like NPM, a standalone noble-hashes.js is also available.

The library is tree-shaking-friendly and does not expose root entry point as @noble/hashes. Instead, you need to import specific primitives. This is done to ensure small size of your apps.

import { sha256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha256'; // ECMAScript modules (ESM) and Common.js
// import { sha256 } from 'npm:@noble/[email protected]/sha256'; // Deno
console.log(sha256(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]))); // Uint8Array(32) [3, 144, 88, 198, 242...]
// you could also pass strings that will be UTF8-encoded to Uint8Array
console.log(sha256('abc')); // == sha256(new TextEncoder().encode('abc'))

// sha384 is here, because it uses same internals as sha512
import { sha512, sha512_256, sha384 } from '@noble/hashes/sha512';
// prettier-ignore
import {
  sha3_224, sha3_256, sha3_384, sha3_512,
  keccak_224, keccak_256, keccak_384, keccak_512,
  shake128, shake256
} from '@noble/hashes/sha3';
// prettier-ignore
import {
  cshake128, cshake256, kmac128, kmac256,
  k12, m14,
  tuplehash256, parallelhash256, keccakprg
} from '@noble/hashes/sha3-addons';
import { ripemd160 } from '@noble/hashes/ripemd160';
import { blake3 } from '@noble/hashes/blake3';
import { blake2b } from '@noble/hashes/blake2b';
import { blake2s } from '@noble/hashes/blake2s';
import { hmac } from '@noble/hashes/hmac';
import { hkdf } from '@noble/hashes/hkdf';
import { pbkdf2, pbkdf2Async } from '@noble/hashes/pbkdf2';
import { scrypt, scryptAsync } from '@noble/hashes/scrypt';

import { sha1 } from '@noble/hashes/sha1'; // legacy

// small utility method that converts bytes to hex
import { bytesToHex as toHex } from '@noble/hashes/utils';
console.log(toHex(sha256('abc'))); // ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad

API

All hash functions:

can be called directly, with Uint8Array.
return Uint8Array
can receive string, which is automatically converted to Uint8Array via utf8 encoding (not hex)
support hashing 4GB of data per update on 64-bit systems (unlimited with streaming)

function hash(message: Uint8Array | string): Uint8Array;
hash(new Uint8Array([1, 3]));
hash('string') == hash(new TextEncoder().encode('string'));

All hash functions can be constructed via hash.create() method:

the result is Hash subclass instance, which has update() and digest() methods
digest() finalizes the hash and makes it no longer usable

hash
  .create()
  .update(new Uint8Array([1, 3]))
  .digest();

Some hash functions can also receive options object, which can be either passed as a:

second argument to hash function: blake3('abc', { key: 'd', dkLen: 32 })
first argument to class initializer: blake3.create({ context: 'e', dkLen: 32 })

Modules

SHA2 (sha256, sha384, sha512, sha512_256)
SHA3 (FIPS, SHAKE, Keccak)
SHA3 Addons (cSHAKE, KMAC, KangarooTwelve, MarsupilamiFourteen)
RIPEMD-160
BLAKE2b, BLAKE2s
BLAKE3
SHA1 (legacy)
HMAC
HKDF
PBKDF2
Scrypt
ESKDF
utils

SHA2 (sha256, sha384, sha512, sha512_256)

import { sha256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha256';
const h1a = sha256('abc');
const h1b = sha256
  .create()
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();

import { sha512 } from '@noble/hashes/sha512';
const h2a = sha512('abc');
const h2b = sha512
  .create()
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();

// SHA512/256 variant
import { sha512_256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha512';
const h3a = sha512_256('abc');
const h3b = sha512_256
  .create()
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();

// SHA384
import { sha384 } from '@noble/hashes/sha512';
const h4a = sha384('abc');
const h4b = sha384
  .create()
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();

See RFC 4634 and the paper on SHA512/256.

SHA3 (FIPS, SHAKE, Keccak)

import {
  sha3_224,
  sha3_256,
  sha3_384,
  sha3_512,
  keccak_224,
  keccak_256,
  keccak_384,
  keccak_512,
  shake128,
  shake256,
} from '@noble/hashes/sha3';
const h5a = sha3_256('abc');
const h5b = sha3_256
  .create()
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();
const h6a = keccak_256('abc');
const h7a = shake128('abc', { dkLen: 512 });
const h7b = shake256('abc', { dkLen: 512 });

See FIPS PUB 202, Website.

Check out the differences between SHA-3 and Keccak

SHA3 Addons (cSHAKE, KMAC, TupleHash, ParallelHash, KangarooTwelve, MarsupilamiFourteen)

import {
  cshake128,
  cshake256,
  kmac128,
  kmac256,
  k12,
  m14,
  tuplehash128,
  tuplehash256,
  parallelhash128,
  parallelhash256,
  keccakprg,
} from '@noble/hashes/sha3-addons';
const h7c = cshake128('abc', { personalization: 'def' });
const h7d = cshake256('abc', { personalization: 'def' });
const h7e = kmac128('key', 'message');
const h7f = kmac256('key', 'message');
const h7h = k12('abc');
const h7g = m14('abc');
const h7i = tuplehash128(['ab', 'c']); // tuplehash(['ab', 'c']) !== tuplehash(['a', 'bc']) !== tuplehash(['abc'])
// Same as k12/blake3, but without reduced number of rounds. Doesn't speedup anything due lack of SIMD and threading,
// added for compatibility.
const h7j = parallelhash128('abc', { blockLen: 8 });
// pseudo-random generator, first argument is capacity. XKCP recommends 254 bits capacity for 128-bit security strength.
// * with a capacity of 254 bits.
const p = keccakprg(254);
p.feed('test');
const rand1b = p.fetch(1);

Full NIST SP 800-185: cSHAKE, KMAC, TupleHash, ParallelHash + XOF variants
🦘 K12 (KangarooTwelve Paper, RFC Draft) and M14 aka MarsupilamiFourteen are basically parallel versions of Keccak with reduced number of rounds (same as Blake3 and ParallelHash).
KeccakPRG: Pseudo-random generator based on Keccak

RIPEMD-160

import { ripemd160 } from '@noble/hashes/ripemd160';
// function ripemd160(data: Uint8Array): Uint8Array;
const hash8 = ripemd160('abc');
const hash9 = ripemd160()
  .create()
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();

See RFC 2286, Website

BLAKE2b, BLAKE2s

import { blake2b } from '@noble/hashes/blake2b';
import { blake2s } from '@noble/hashes/blake2s';
const h10a = blake2s('abc');
const b2params = { key: new Uint8Array([1]), personalization: t, salt: t, dkLen: 32 };
const h10b = blake2s('abc', b2params);
const h10c = blake2s
  .create(b2params)
  .update(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]))
  .digest();

See RFC 7693, Website.

BLAKE3

import { blake3 } from '@noble/hashes/blake3';
// All params are optional
const h11 = blake3('abc', { dkLen: 256, key: 'def', context: 'fji' });

SHA1 (legacy)

SHA1 was cryptographically broken, however, it was not broken for cases like HMAC.

See RFC4226 B.2.

Don't use it for a new protocol.

import { sha1 } from '@noble/hashes/sha1';
const h12 = sha1('def');

HMAC

import { hmac } from '@noble/hashes/hmac';
import { sha256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha256';
const mac1 = hmac(sha256, 'key', 'message');
const mac2 = hmac.create(sha256, Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3])).update(Uint8Array.from([4, 5, 6])).digest();

Matches RFC 2104.

HKDF

import { hkdf } from '@noble/hashes/hkdf';
import { sha256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha256';
import { randomBytes } from '@noble/hashes/utils';
const inputKey = randomBytes(32);
const salt = randomBytes(32);
const info = 'abc';
const dkLen = 32;
const hk1 = hkdf(sha256, inputKey, salt, info, dkLen);

// == same as
import * as hkdf from '@noble/hashes/hkdf';
import { sha256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha256';
const prk = hkdf.extract(sha256, inputKey, salt);
const hk2 = hkdf.expand(sha256, prk, info, dkLen);

Matches RFC 5869.

PBKDF2

import { pbkdf2, pbkdf2Async } from '@noble/hashes/pbkdf2';
import { sha256 } from '@noble/hashes/sha256';
const pbkey1 = pbkdf2(sha256, 'password', 'salt', { c: 32, dkLen: 32 });
const pbkey2 = await pbkdf2Async(sha256, 'password', 'salt', { c: 32, dkLen: 32 });
const pbkey3 = await pbkdf2Async(sha256, Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]), Uint8Array.from([4, 5, 6]), {
  c: 32,
  dkLen: 32,
});

Matches RFC 2898.

Scrypt

import { scrypt, scryptAsync } from '@noble/hashes/scrypt';
const scr1 = scrypt('password', 'salt', { N: 2 ** 16, r: 8, p: 1, dkLen: 32 });
const scr2 = await scryptAsync('password', 'salt', { N: 2 ** 16, r: 8, p: 1, dkLen: 32 });
const scr3 = await scryptAsync(Uint8Array.from([1, 2, 3]), Uint8Array.from([4, 5, 6]), {
  N: 2 ** 22,
  r: 8,
  p: 1,
  dkLen: 32,
  onProgress(percentage) {
    console.log('progress', percentage);
  },
  maxmem: 2 ** 32 + 128 * 8 * 1, // N * r * p * 128 + (128*r*p)
});

Conforms to RFC 7914, Website

N, r, p are work factors. To understand them, see the blog post.
dkLen is the length of output bytes
It is common to use N from 2**10 to 2**22 and {r: 8, p: 1, dkLen: 32}
onProgress can be used with async version of the function to report progress to a user.

Memory usage of scrypt is calculated with the formula N * r * p * 128 + (128 * r * p), which means {N: 2 ** 22, r: 8, p: 1} will use 4GB + 1KB of memory. To prevent DoS, we limit scrypt to 1GB + 1KB of RAM used, which corresponds to {N: 2 ** 20, r: 8, p: 1}. If you want to use higher values, increase maxmem using the formula above.

Note: noble supports 2**22 (4GB RAM) which is the highest amount amongst JS libs. Many other implementations don't support it. We cannot support 2**23, because there is a limitation in JS engines that makes allocating arrays bigger than 4GB impossible, but we're looking into other possible solutions.

Argon2

Experimental Argon2 RFC 9106 implementation. It may be removed at any time.

import { argon2d, argon2i, argon2id } from '@noble/hashes/argon2';
const result = argon2id('password', 'salt', { t: 2, m: 65536, p: 1 });

ESKDF

A tiny stretched KDF for various applications like AES key-gen. Takes >= 2 seconds to execute.

Takes following params:

username - username, email, or identifier, min: 8 characters, should have enough entropy
password - min: 8 characters, should have enough entropy

Produces ESKDF instance that has deriveChildKey(protocol, accountId[, options]) function.

protocol - 3-15 character protocol name
accountId - numeric identifier of account
options - keyLength: 32 with specified key length (default is 32), or modulus: 2n ** 221n - 17n with specified modulus. It will fetch modulus + 64 bits of data, execute modular division. The result will have negligible bias as per FIPS 186 B.4.1. Can be used to generate, for example, elliptic curve keys.

Takes username and password, then takes protocol name and account id.

import { eskdf } from '@noble/hashes/eskdf';
const kdf = await eskdf('example@university', 'beginning-new-example');
console.log(kdf.fingerprint);
const key1 = kdf.deriveChildKey('aes', 0);
const key2 = kdf.deriveChildKey('aes', 0, { keyLength: 16 });
const ecc1 = kdf.deriveChildKey('ecc', 0, { modulus: 2n ** 252n - 27742317777372353535851937790883648493n })
kdf.expire();

utils

import { bytesToHex as toHex, randomBytes } from '@noble/hashes/utils';
console.log(toHex(randomBytes(32)));

bytesToHex will convert Uint8Array to a hex string
randomBytes(bytes) will produce cryptographically secure random Uint8Array of length bytes

Security

Noble is production-ready.

The library has been audited in Jan 2022 by an independent security firm cure53: PDF. No vulnerabilities have been found. The audit has been funded by Ethereum Foundation with help of Nomic Labs. Modules blake3, sha3-addons, sha1 and argon2 have not been audited. See changes since audit.
The library has been fuzzed by Guido Vranken's cryptofuzz. You can run the fuzzer by yourself to check it.
Timing attack considerations: JIT-compiler and Garbage Collector make "constant time" extremely hard to achieve 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 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. Nonetheless we're targetting algorithmic constant time.
Memory dump considerations: the library shares state buffers between hash function calls. The buffers are zeroed-out after each call. However, if an attacker can read application memory, you are doomed in any case:
- At some point, input will be a string and strings are immutable in JS: there is no way to overwrite them with zeros. For example: deriving key from scrypt(password, salt) where password and salt are strings
- Input from a file will stay in file buffers
- Input / output will be re-used multiple times in application which means it could stay in memory
- await anything() will always write all internal variables (including numbers) to memory. With async functions / Promises there are no guarantees when the code chunk would be executed. Which means attacker can have plenty of time to read data from memory
- There is no way to guarantee anything about zeroing sensitive data without complex tests-suite which will dump process memory and verify that there is no sensitive data left. For JS it means testing all browsers (incl. mobile), which is complex. And of course it will be useless without using the same test-suite in the actual application that consumes the library

We consider infrastructure attacks like rogue NPM modules very important; that's why it's crucial to minimize the amount of 3rd-party dependencies & native bindings. If your app uses 500 dependencies, any dep could get hacked and you'll be downloading malware with every npm install. Our goal is to minimize this attack vector.

Speed

Benchmarks measured on Apple M1 with macOS 12. Note that PBKDF2 and Scrypt are tested with extremely high work factor. To run benchmarks, execute npm run bench:install and then npm run bench

SHA256 32B x 1,219,512 ops/sec @ 820ns/op ± 2.58% (min: 625ns, max: 4ms)
SHA384 32B x 512,032 ops/sec @ 1μs/op
SHA512 32B x 509,943 ops/sec @ 1μs/op
SHA3-256, keccak256, shake256 32B x 199,600 ops/sec @ 5μs/op
Kangaroo12 32B x 336,360 ops/sec @ 2μs/op
Marsupilami14 32B x 298,418 ops/sec @ 3μs/op
BLAKE2b 32B x 379,794 ops/sec @ 2μs/op
BLAKE2s 32B x 515,995 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 1.07% (min: 1μs, max: 4ms)
BLAKE3 32B x 588,235 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 1.36% (min: 1μs, max: 5ms)
RIPEMD160 32B x 1,140,250 ops/sec @ 877ns/op ± 3.12% (min: 708ns, max: 6ms)
HMAC-SHA256 32B x 377,358 ops/sec @ 2μs/op

HKDF-SHA256 32B x 108,377 ops/sec @ 9μs/op
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 262144 x 3 ops/sec @ 326ms/op
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 262144 x 1 ops/sec @ 970ms/op
Scrypt r: 8, p: 1, n: 262144 x 1 ops/sec @ 616ms/op

Compare to native node.js implementation that uses C bindings instead of pure-js code:

SHA256 32B node x 1,302,083 ops/sec @ 768ns/op ± 10.54% (min: 416ns, max: 7ms)
SHA384 32B node x 975,609 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 11.32% (min: 625ns, max: 8ms)
SHA512 32B node x 983,284 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 11.24% (min: 625ns, max: 8ms)
SHA3-256 32B node x 910,746 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 12.19% (min: 666ns, max: 10ms)
keccak, k12, m14 are not implemented
BLAKE2b 32B node x 967,117 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 11.26% (min: 625ns, max: 9ms)
BLAKE2s 32B node x 1,055,966 ops/sec @ 947ns/op ± 11.07% (min: 583ns, max: 7ms)
BLAKE3 is not implemented
RIPEMD160 32B node x 1,002,004 ops/sec @ 998ns/op ± 10.66% (min: 625ns, max: 7ms)
HMAC-SHA256 32B node x 919,963 ops/sec @ 1μs/op ± 6.13% (min: 833ns, max: 5ms)
HKDF-SHA256 32 node x 369,276 ops/sec @ 2μs/op ± 13.59% (min: 1μs, max: 9ms)
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 262144 node x 25 ops/sec @ 39ms/op
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 262144 node x 7 ops/sec @ 132ms/op
Scrypt r: 8, p: 1, n: 262144 node x 1 ops/sec @ 523ms/op

It is possible to make this library 4x+ faster by doing code generation of full loop unrolls. We've decided against it. Reasons:

the library must be auditable, with minimum amount of code, and zero dependencies
most method invocations with the lib are going to be something like hashing 32b to 64kb of data
hashing big inputs is 10x faster with low-level languages, which means you should probably pick 'em instead

The current performance is good enough when compared to other projects; SHA256 takes only 900 nanoseconds to run.

Contributing & testing

Clone the repository
npm install to install build dependencies like TypeScript
npm run build to compile TypeScript code
npm run test will execute all main tests. See our approach to testing
npm run test:dos will test against DoS; by measuring function complexity. Takes ~20 minutes
npm run test:big will execute hashing on 4GB inputs, scrypt with 1024 different N, r, p combinations, etc. Takes several hours. Using 8-32+ core CPU helps.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

See LICENSE file.

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