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| author | Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de> | 2018-02-07 16:20:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> | 2018-02-10 15:58:46 +0100 |
| commit | 38bac4266a4f7adcfdd9832934aa57c564da1179 (patch) | |
| tree | aad8c985e4340fd35076669d20bc23324e2e7a16 /doc | |
| parent | cf52ab19dc9632e59b38744ebd0614b4d8ac151b (diff) | |
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crypto: allow passing null as IV unless required
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18644
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/crypto.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/crypto.md b/doc/api/crypto.md index 3eb4519d9f..9adc9082fc 100644 --- a/doc/api/crypto.md +++ b/doc/api/crypto.md @@ -1286,6 +1286,11 @@ Adversaries][] for details. ### crypto.createCipheriv(algorithm, key, iv[, options]) <!-- YAML added: v0.1.94 +changes: + - version: REPLACEME + pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18644 + description: The `iv` parameter may now be `null` for ciphers which do not + need an initialization vector. --> - `algorithm` {string} - `key` {string | Buffer | TypedArray | DataView} @@ -1301,7 +1306,8 @@ available cipher algorithms. The `key` is the raw key used by the `algorithm` and `iv` is an [initialization vector][]. Both arguments must be `'utf8'` encoded strings, -[Buffers][`Buffer`], `TypedArray`, or `DataView`s. +[Buffers][`Buffer`], `TypedArray`, or `DataView`s. If the cipher does not need +an initialization vector, `iv` may be `null`. ### crypto.createCredentials(details) <!-- YAML @@ -1347,6 +1353,11 @@ to create the `Decipher` object. ### crypto.createDecipheriv(algorithm, key, iv[, options]) <!-- YAML added: v0.1.94 +changes: + - version: REPLACEME + pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18644 + description: The `iv` parameter may now be `null` for ciphers which do not + need an initialization vector. --> - `algorithm` {string} - `key` {string | Buffer | TypedArray | DataView} @@ -1363,7 +1374,8 @@ available cipher algorithms. The `key` is the raw key used by the `algorithm` and `iv` is an [initialization vector][]. Both arguments must be `'utf8'` encoded strings, -[Buffers][`Buffer`], `TypedArray`, or `DataView`s. +[Buffers][`Buffer`], `TypedArray`, or `DataView`s. If the cipher does not need +an initialization vector, `iv` may be `null`. ### crypto.createDiffieHellman(prime[, primeEncoding][, generator][, generatorEncoding]) <!-- YAML |