Crypto
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The Crypto
interface represents basic cryptography features available in the current context.
It allows access to a cryptographically strong random number generator and to cryptographic primitives.
The Crypto
is available in windows using the Window.crypto
property and in workers using the WorkerGlobalScope.crypto
property.
Instance properties
This interface implements properties defined on RandomSource
.
Crypto.subtle
Read only Secure context-
Returns a
SubtleCrypto
object providing access to common cryptographic primitives, like hashing, signing, encryption, or decryption.
Instance methods
This interface implements methods defined on RandomSource
.
Crypto.getRandomValues()
-
Fills the passed
TypedArray
with cryptographically sound random values. Crypto.randomUUID()
Secure context-
Returns a randomly generated, 36 character long v4 UUID.
Specifications
Specification |
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Web Cryptography API # crypto-interface |
Browser compatibility
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