node-mpw

Implementation of Master Password for nodejs and browser

Installation

Requirements:

• Node.js (v4.0.0+)

Note: this package uses scrypt which is built with node-gyp so you might need to compile C code. Blame node-gyp.

First, install Node.js, and then open a terminal and run node -v and npm -v to make sure Node is installed correctly.

Now we can install the package.

$ npm install --save node-mpw

Once it's installed and in your node_modules folder, you can now run the script! Here's an example:

import * as mpw from 'node-mpw'

const username = 'username'
const password = 'password'
const site = 'example.com'

const key = mpw.generateKey(username, password)
const generated = mpw.generatePassword(site, key, 1, 'long', 3)

API Reference

generateKey

mpw.generateKey(name: string, password: string, version?: string, namespace?: string): Buffer

Calculate the master key from a user's name and master password.

Parameters

• name: string The desired username.
• password: string The desired master password.
• version?: string The algorithm version being used for this process.
• namespace? string The namespace used as a salt to calculate the key.

Returns: a key generated from the scrypt algorithm.

generatePassword

mpw.generatePassword(site: string, key: Buffer, counter?: number, template?: string, version?: number, namespace?: string): string

Encode a site password using the site's type template.

Parameters

• site: string The site name. The bare domain name is an ideal choice.
• key: Buffer An scrypt-hashed key generated from the generateKey() function.
• counter?: number An integer that can be incremented when the user needs a new password for the site.
• template?: string The password template that the user chooses.
• version?: number The algorithm version being used for this process.
• namespace?: string The namespace used as a salt to calculate the seed.

Returns: the final, generated password.

Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guidelines & Code of Conduct beforehand.

Reading the commit log

Our commit logs are Commitizen-friendly. With Commitizen, the header of every commit message has to include a type, an optional scope and a subject with the following format:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

You can use one of the following methods to use Commitizen.

Option 1: Install Commitizen by running npm install -g commitizen, and run git cz instead of git commit when you want to commit. Follow the instructions on the next screen.

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Option 3: Manually typing the commits altogether. We use the following Commitizen tags.

• feat: A new feature
• fix: A bug fix
• docs: Documentation only changes
• style: Changes that do not affect the meaning on the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
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• chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
• revert: Reverts a previous commit