Hey all,
I'm trying to come up with a way to generate a viable initialization vector for
crypto.Cipher.
For example, AES256 has a block size of 128, and therefore needs a 128-bit IV.
So, I generate a random one like so:
crypto.randomBytes(16, function(err, ivBuf){
// got here
});
That gives me a buffer with my IV in it. From there, I do
ivBuf.toString('binary'), and everything works as planned.
However, the problem I see with this is that the 'binary' encoding of buffers
is deprecated. Is there any way around this, and/or is there a better way to
generate an initialization vector? createCipher doesn't accept a buffer, and
.toString('ascii') sometimes works, but sometimes gives me a string only 15
characters long, and I get an error.
Thanks!
-Matt
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