On Friday, August 29, 2014 8:02:25 PM UTC-4, Sanjeev Koranga wrote:
>
> When I use the node crypto module, does it block the event loop while 
> processing or spawn a different thread in C++?
>

Currently there are no non-blocking counterparts to the existing functions 
in the built-in crypto module for node, except for 
`randomBytes()`/`pseudoRandomBytes()` which run in a separate thread if a 
callback is passed to those functions.

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