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by phillipburch 3778 days ago
Or you could just use the async versions.... https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt-nodejs
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zwily 3778 days ago
Does that library do the calculations in a thread pool, or is it just async on the main thread? If the latter (which seems mostly likely), then it won't matter.
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warfangle 3778 days ago
It looks like that one is pure JS, using native node crypt functionality for randomness.

The one recommended in the article[0] actually includes a blowfish C++ binding, with both synchronous and asynchronous methods for comparing and hashing. That binding uses NAN[1] to queue AsyncWorkers. NAN uses libuv[2] behind the scenes to launch a thread[3].

0. https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt

1. https://github.com/nodejs/nan

2. https://github.com/libuv/libuv

3. https://blog.scottfrees.com/building-an-asynchronous-c-addon...

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phpnode 3778 days ago
It does it on the main thread, pseudo-async, so I agree with you, you should not use this library. Look for a native module instead.
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