New crypto capabilities in Node.js - UUID's and Primes

Much has been happening in the Node.js crypto subsystem lately. I introduced the Web Cryptography API implementation, and added the new support for the HKDF key derivation scheme previously. Here I discuss two powerful new capabilities for generating random UUIDs and random prime numbers. Read more: https://www.nearform.com/blog/new-crypto-capabilities-in-node-js/

import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
console.log(randomUUID());

const prime = crypto.generatePrimeSync(32);
console.log(prime);

// Or asynchronous ...

crypto.generatePrime(32, { safe: true, add: 2n, rem : 1n, bigint: true }, (err, prime) => {
  console.log(prime);
})