@stead/sls

SLS (Secure Local Storage)

Secures localStorage data with high level of encryption and data compression.

A custom fork of Secure LS

Installation

$ yarn add @stead/sls

Scripts

• yarn build - produces production version of the library under the dist folder
• yarn dev - produces development version of the library and runs a watcher
• yarn test - runs the tests :)

Libraries used

• Encryption / Decryption using The Cipher Algorithms

  It requires secret-key for encrypting and decrypting data securely. If custom secret-key is provided as mentioned below in APIs, then the library will pick that otherwise it will generate yet another very secure unique password key using PBKDF2, which will be further used for future API requests.

  PBKDF2 is a password-based key derivation function. In many applications of cryptography, user security is ultimately dependent on a password, and because a password usually can't be used directly as a cryptographic key, some processing is required.

  A salt provides a large set of keys for any given password, and an iteration count increases the cost of producing keys from a password, thereby also increasing the difficulty of attack.

  Eg: 55e8f5585789191d350329b9ebcf2b11 and db51d35aad96610683d5a40a70b20c39.

  For the generation of such strings, secretPhrase is being used and can be found in code easily but that won't make it unsecure, PBKDF2's layer on top of that will handle security.

• Compresion / Decompression using lz-string

Usage

• Example 1: With default settings i.e. Base64 Encoding and Data Compression

> var ls = new SLS();
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
  {data: 'test'}

• Example 2: With AES Encryption and Data Compression

> var ls = new SLS({encodingType: 'aes'});
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
  {data: 'test'}

> ls.set('key2', [1, 2, 3]); // set another key
> ls.getAllKeys(); // get all keys
  ["key1", "key2"]
> ls.removeAll(); // remove all keys

• Example 3: With RC4 Encryption but no Data Compression

> var ls = new SLS({encodingType: 'rc4', isCompression: false});
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
  {data: 'test'}

> ls.set('key2', [1, 2, 3]); // set another key
> ls.getAllKeys(); // get all keys
  ["key1", "key2"]
> ls.removeAll(); // remove all keys

• Example 3: With DES Encryption, no Data Compression and custom secret key

> var ls = new SLS({encodingType: 'des', isCompression: false, encryptionSecret: 'my-secret-key'});
> ls.set('key1', {data: 'test'}); // set key1
> ls.get('key1'); // print data
  {data: 'test'}

> ls.set('key2', [1, 2, 3]); // set another key
> ls.getAllKeys(); // get all keys
  ["key1", "key2"]
> ls.removeAll(); // remove all keys

API Documentation

Create an instance / reference before using.

var ls = new SLS();

Contructor accepts a configurable Object with all three keys being optional.

Config Keys	default	accepts
encodingType	Base64	base64/aes/des/rabbit/rc4/''
isCompression	true	true/false
encryptionSecret	PBKDF2 value	String
encryptionNamespace	null	String

Note: encryptionSecret will only be used for the Encryption and Decryption of data with AES, DES, RC4, RABBIT, and the library will discard it if no encoding / Base64 encoding method is choosen.

encryptionNamespace is used to make multiple instances with different encryptionSecret and/or different encryptionSecret possible.

var ls1 = new SLS({encodingType: 'des', encryptionSecret: 'my-secret-key-1'});
var ls2 = new SLS({encodingType: 'aes', encryptionSecret: 'my-secret-key-2'});

Examples:

• No config or empty Object i.e. Default Base64 Encoding and Data compression

var ls = new SLS();
// or
var ls = new SLS({});

• No encoding No data compression i.e. Normal way of storing data

var ls = new SLS({encodingType: '', isCompression: false});

• Base64 encoding but no data compression

var ls = new SLS({isCompression: false});

• AES encryption and data compression

var ls = new SLS({encodingType: 'aes'});

• RC4 encryption and no data compression

var ls = new SLS({encodingType: 'rc4', isCompression: false});

• RABBIT encryption, no data compression and custom encryptionSecret

var ls = new SLS({encodingType: 'rc4', isCompression: false, encryptionSecret: 's3cr3tPa$$w0rd@123'});

Methods

• set

  Saves data in specifed key in localStorage. If the key is not provided, the library will warn. Following types of JavaScript objects are supported:

  • Array
  • ArrayBuffer
  • Blob
  • Float32Array
  • Float64Array
  • Int8Array
  • Int16Array
  • Int32Array
  • Number
  • Object
  • Uint8Array
  • Uint8ClampedArray
  • Uint16Array
  • Uint32Array
  • String

  Parameter	Description
  key	key to store data in
  data	data to be stored

    ls.set('key-name', {test: 'secure-ls'})
  

• get

  Gets data back from specified key from the localStorage library. If the key is not provided, the library will warn.

  Parameter	Description
  key	key in which data is stored

    ls.get('key-name')
  

• remove

  Removes the value of a key from the localStorage. If the meta key, which stores the list of keys, is tried to be removed even if there are other keys which were created by secure-ls library, the library will warn for the action.

  Parameter	Description
  key	remove key in which data is stored

    ls.remove('key-name')
  

• removeAll

  Removes all the keys that were created by the secure-ls library, even the meta key.

    ls.removeAll()
  

• clear

  Removes all the keys ever created for that particular domain. Remember localStorage works differently for http and https protocol;

    ls.clear()
  

• getAllKeys

  Gets the list of keys that were created using the secure-ls library. Helpful when data needs to be retrieved for all the keys or when keys name are not known(dynamically created keys).

  getAllKeys()

    ls.getAllKeys()