A native implementation of RSA key generation and encryption/decryption, sign/verify. Keychain implementation Implementation is in PKCS1
iOS 10+ android 4.1+ (API 16)
Features: Generation, Encryption, Decryption, Sign, Verify, Keychain support
$ yarn add react-native-rsa-native
or:
$ npm install react-native-rsa-native --save
If you are using an older version of React Native and are having issues try using v1.1.14
These basic examples show a typical use case using both promise chains and async/await. See the full API documentation below for more detail on the methods available.
Encrypt a message and subsequently decrypt it, using the RSA class in a promise chain structure.
import { RSA } from 'react-native-rsa-native';
let message = "my secret message";
RSA.generateKeys(4096) // set key size
.then(keys => {
console.log('4096 private:', keys.private); // the private key
console.log('4096 public:', keys.public); // the public key
RSA.encrypt(message, keys.public)
.then(encodedMessage => {
console.log(`the encoded message is ${encodedMessage}`);
RSA.decrypt(encodedMessage, keys.private)
.then(decryptedMessage => {
console.log(`The original message was ${decryptedMessage}`);
});
});
});Sign a message and subsequently verify it, using the RSAKeychain class in an async/await structure.
import { RSAKeychain } from 'react-native-rsa-native';
async main() {
let keyTag = 'com.domain.mykey';
let message = "message to be verified";
let publicKey = await generateKeyPair(keyTag);
// Share the generated public key with third parties as desired.
let messageSignature = await RSAKeychain.sign(message, keyTag);
if (await RSAKeychain.verify(messageSignature, message, keyTag)) {
// The signature matches: trust this message.
} else {
// The signature does not match.
}
await RSAKeychain.deletePrivateKey(keyTag);
}
async generateKeyPair(keyTag : string) {
let keys = await RSAKeychain.generate(keyTag);
return keys.public;
}Check out example App.js for a full example
A class that performs RSA cryptographic primitives in a simple and straightforward manner. If you would prefer to use the underlying operating system's built-in security keychain, use the RSAKeychain Class instead.
static generateKeys(keySize : number) : Promise<KeyPair>
Generate a public/private key pair of the given key size.
static generate() : Promise<KeyPair>
Equivalent to generateKeys(2048)
static encrypt(message : string, publicKey : string) : Promise<string>
Encrypt a given message with the provided public key, so it is decryptable with the matching private key.
static decrypt(encodedMessage : string, privateKey : string) : Promise<string>
Decrypt a given encrypted message using the private key.
static sign(message: string, privateKey : string) : Promise<string>
Sign a given message with the private key, so that any user with the message, the returned signature, and the matching public key can verify it was signed under this key.
static verify(signature : string, message : string, publicKey : string) : Promise<boolean>
Verify whether or not a provided signature was produced by signing the given message with the private key paired to the provided public key.
Support: android 4.3+ (API 18)
Like the RSA Class, but when its methods are called, instead of directly accessing the private key, the private key is stored in the underlying operating system's keychain (see documentation for iOS and for Android) using a tag which the app can use to access it. Methods then take this tag instead of the private key.
static generateKeys(keyTag : string, keySize : number) : Promise<PublicKey>
Generate a public/private key pair of the given key size, and store the private key in the operating system keychain.
static generate(keyTag : string) : Promise<KeyPair>
Equivalent to generateKeys(keyTag, 2048)
static encrypt(message : string, keyTag : string) : Promise<string>
Retrieve the public key associated with the key tag, and encrypt a given message with that key, so it is decryptable with the matching private key.
static decrypt(encodedMessage : string, keyTag : string) : Promise<string>
Decrypt a given encrypted message using the private key associated with the given key tag.
static sign(message: string, keyTag : string) : Promise<string>
Sign a given message with the private key associated with the given key tag, so that any user with the message, the returned signature, and the matching public key can verify it was signed under this key.
static sign(message: string, keyTag : string, algorithm?: 'SHA256withRSA' | 'SHA512withRSA') : Promise<string>
Sign a given message with the private key associated with the given key tag, so that any user with the message, the returned signature, and the matching public key can verify it was signed under this key. The user can use SHA256withRSA or SHA512withRSA algorithm for signing. SHA256withRSA algorithm is not backward compatible on android and the user needs to generate new keypair for this to work. (available from ^1.1.0). The default is SHA512withRSA and if one wishes to use SHA512withRSA for signing without new keypair, then use the above sign method.
static verify(signature : string, message : string, keyTag : string) : Promise<boolean>
Verify whether or not a provided signature was produced by signing the given message with private key associated with the given key tag.
static verify(signature : string, message : string, keyTag : string, algorithm?: 'SHA256withRSA' | 'SHA512withRSA') : Promise<boolean>
Verify whether or not a provided signature was produced by signing the given message with private key associated with the given key tag.
static deletePrivateKey(keyTag : string) : Promise<boolean>
Delete the private key from the operating system's keychain. Returns true if the key was removed successfully.
Note: The KeyPair type does not strictly exist.
Documentation provided here for convenience of understanding the return types
of other methods.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
private : string |
The RSA private key. |
public : string |
The RSA public key. |
Note: The PublicKey type does not strictly exist.
Documentation provided here for convenience of understanding the return types
of other methods.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
public : string |
The RSA public key. |
- Originally based on https://github.com/SamSaffron/react-native-key-pair
- iOS implementation reference
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