On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Arunprabu Durairaju
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to use crypt in my code to hash the password and getting the
> following error. I have given the code in the bottom of this post. I am
> using node version 0.8.16 on osx Lion 10.7.5.
>
> I tried searching for the issue and found couple of similar posts but
> happening only on specific modules and they were old.
>
> crypto.js:138
>   return (new Hmac).init(hmac, key);
>                     ^
> TypeError: Not a string or buffer
>     at Object.exports.createHmac (crypto.js:138:21)
>     at addAdmin (/Users/apps//data_processor.js:37:26)
>
> Here is my code:
>
> var hashedpass = crypto.createHmac("sha1",
> password).update('salttext').digest("hex");

The error message suggests `password` is neither a string or a buffer.

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