The changes do not affect the public API:
`RandomBuffer` was used internally for secure randomness generation before
`crypto.getRandomValues` was made available to WebWorkers, requiring
generating randomness in the main thread.
As a result of the change, the internal `getRandomBytes()` and some functions
that use it are no longer async.
In browsers, encryption of messages larger than 3MB (or a custom value
based on `config.minBytesForWebCrypto`) would throw the error `Error encrypting
message: 'crypto.getCipher' is not a function`.
The issue was introduced in v5.1 .
In several packet classes, we used to store string identifiers for public-key,
aead, cipher or hash algorithms. To make the code consistent and to avoid
having to convert to/from string values, we now always store integer values
instead, e.g. `enums.symmetric.aes128` is used instead of `'aes128'`.
This is not expected to be a breaking change for most library users. Note that
the type of `Key.getAlgorithmInfo()` and of the session key objects returned
and accepted by top-level functions remain unchanged.
Affected classes (type changes for some properties and method's arguments):
- `PublicKeyPacket`, `PublicSubkeyPacket`, `SecretKeyPacket`,
`SecretSubkeyPacket`
- `SymEncryptedIntegrityProtectedDataPacket`, `AEADEncryptedDataPacket`,
`SymmetricallyEncryptedDataPacket`
- `LiteralDataPacket`, `CompressedDataPacket`
- `PublicKeyEncryptedSessionKey`, `SymEncryptedSessionKeyPacket`
- `SignaturePacket`
Other potentially breaking changes:
- Removed property `AEADEncryptedDataPacket.aeadAlgo`, since it was redudant
given `.aeadAlgorithm`.
- Renamed `AEADEncryptedDataPacket.cipherAlgo` -> `.cipherAlgorithm`
- Use PascalCase for classes, with uppercase acronyms.
- Use camelCase for function and variables. First word/acronym is always
lowercase, otherwise acronyms are uppercase.
Also, make the packet classes' `tag` properties `static`.
Refactor functions to take the configuration as a parameter.
This allows setting a config option for a single function call, whereas
setting `openpgp.config` could lead to concurrency-related issues when
multiple async function calls are made at the same time.
`openpgp.config` is used as default for unset config values in top-level
functions.
`openpgp.config` is used as default config object in low-level functions
(i.e., when calling a low-level function, it may be required to pass
`{ ...openpgp.config, modifiedConfig: modifiedValue }`).
Also,
- remove `config.rsaBlinding`: blinding is now always applied to RSA decryption
- remove `config.debug`: debugging mode can be enabled by setting
`process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development'`
- remove `config.useNative`: native crypto is always used when available
- Store private and public params separately and by name in objects,
instead of as an array
- Do not keep params in MPI form, but convert them to Uint8Arrays when
generating/parsing the key
- Modify low-level crypto functions to always accept and return
Uint8Arrays instead of BigIntegers
- Move PKCS1 padding to lower level functions
In the lightweight build, lazily load bn.js only when necessary.
Also, use Uint8Arrays instead of strings in PKCS1 padding functions, and
check that the leading zero is present when decoding EME-PKCS1 padding.
