bigint-crypto-utils/docs/API.md

# bigint-crypto-utils - v3.2.2

## Table of contents

### Functions

- [abs](API.md#abs)
- [bitLength](API.md#bitlength)
- [eGcd](API.md#egcd)
- [gcd](API.md#gcd)
- [isProbablyPrime](API.md#isprobablyprime)
- [lcm](API.md#lcm)
- [max](API.md#max)
- [min](API.md#min)
- [modInv](API.md#modinv)
- [modPow](API.md#modpow)
- [prime](API.md#prime)
- [primeSync](API.md#primesync)
- [randBetween](API.md#randbetween)
- [randBits](API.md#randbits)
- [randBitsSync](API.md#randbitssync)
- [randBytes](API.md#randbytes)
- [randBytesSync](API.md#randbytessync)
- [toZn](API.md#tozn)

## Functions

### abs

▸ **abs**(`a`): `number` \| `bigint`

Absolute value. abs(a)==a if a>=0. abs(a)==-a if a<0

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`number` \| `bigint`

The absolute value of a

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### bitLength

▸ **bitLength**(`a`): `number`

Returns the (minimum) length of a number expressed in bits.

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`number`

The bit length

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### eGcd

▸ **eGcd**(`a`, `b`): `Egcd`

An iterative implementation of the extended euclidean algorithm or extended greatest common divisor algorithm.
Take positive integers a, b as input, and return a triple (g, x, y), such that ax + by = g = gcd(a, b).

**`Throws`**

RangeError if a or b are <= 0

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |
| `b` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`Egcd`

A triple (g, x, y), such that ax + by = g = gcd(a, b).

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### gcd

▸ **gcd**(`a`, `b`): `bigint`

Greatest common divisor of two integers based on the iterative binary algorithm.

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |
| `b` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`bigint`

The greatest common divisor of a and b

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### isProbablyPrime

▸ **isProbablyPrime**(`w`, `iterations?`, `disableWorkers?`): `Promise`<`boolean`\>

The test first tries if any of the first 250 small primes are a factor of the input number and then passes several
iterations of Miller-Rabin Probabilistic Primality Test (FIPS 186-4 C.3.1)

**`Throws`**

RangeError if w<0

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `w` | `number` \| `bigint` | `undefined` | A positive integer to be tested for primality |
| `iterations` | `number` | `16` | The number of iterations for the primality test. The value shall be consistent with Table C.1, C.2 or C.3 of FIPS 186-4 |
| `disableWorkers` | `boolean` | `false` | Disable the use of workers for the primality test |

#### Returns

`Promise`<`boolean`\>

A promise that resolves to a boolean that is either true (a probably prime number) or false (definitely composite)

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### lcm

▸ **lcm**(`a`, `b`): `bigint`

The least common multiple computed as abs(a*b)/gcd(a,b)

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |
| `b` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`bigint`

The least common multiple of a and b

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### max

▸ **max**(`a`, `b`): `number` \| `bigint`

Maximum. max(a,b)==a if a>=b. max(a,b)==b if a<b

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |
| `b` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`number` \| `bigint`

Maximum of numbers a and b

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### min

▸ **min**(`a`, `b`): `number` \| `bigint`

Minimum. min(a,b)==b if a>=b. min(a,b)==a if a<b

#### Parameters

| Name | Type |
| :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` |
| `b` | `number` \| `bigint` |

#### Returns

`number` \| `bigint`

Minimum of numbers a and b

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### modInv

▸ **modInv**(`a`, `n`): `bigint`

Modular inverse.

**`Throws`**

RangeError if a does not have inverse modulo n

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` | The number to find an inverse for |
| `n` | `number` \| `bigint` | The modulo |

#### Returns

`bigint`

The inverse modulo n

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### modPow

▸ **modPow**(`b`, `e`, `n`, `primeFactorization?`): `bigint`

Modular exponentiation b**e mod n. Currently using the right-to-left binary method if the prime factorization is not provided, or the chinese remainder theorem otherwise.

**`Throws`**

RangeError if n <= 0

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `b` | `number` \| `bigint` | base |
| `e` | `number` \| `bigint` | exponent |
| `n` | `number` \| `bigint` | modulo |
| `primeFactorization?` | `PrimeFactor`[] | an array of the prime factors, for example [5n, 5n, 13n, 27n], or prime powers as [p, k], for instance [[5, 2], [13, 1], [27, 1]]. If the prime factorization is provided the chinese remainder theorem is used to greatly speed up the exponentiation. |

#### Returns

`bigint`

b**e mod n

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### prime

▸ **prime**(`bitLength`, `iterations?`): `Promise`<`bigint`\>

A probably-prime (Miller-Rabin), cryptographically-secure, random-number generator.
The browser version uses web workers to parallelise prime look up. Therefore, it does not lock the UI
main process, and it can be much faster (if several cores or cpu are available).
The node version can also use worker_threads if they are available (enabled by default with Node 11 and
and can be enabled at runtime executing node --experimental-worker with node >=10.5.0).

**`Throws`**

RangeError if bitLength < 1

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `bitLength` | `number` | `undefined` | The required bit length for the generated prime |
| `iterations` | `number` | `16` | The number of iterations for the Miller-Rabin Probabilistic Primality Test |

#### Returns

`Promise`<`bigint`\>

A promise that resolves to a bigint probable prime of bitLength bits.

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### primeSync

▸ **primeSync**(`bitLength`, `iterations?`): `bigint`

A probably-prime (Miller-Rabin), cryptographically-secure, random-number generator.
The sync version is NOT RECOMMENDED since it won't use workers and thus it'll be slower and may freeze thw window in browser's javascript. Please consider using prime() instead.

**`Throws`**

RangeError if bitLength < 1

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `bitLength` | `number` | `undefined` | The required bit length for the generated prime |
| `iterations` | `number` | `16` | The number of iterations for the Miller-Rabin Probabilistic Primality Test |

#### Returns

`bigint`

A bigint probable prime of bitLength bits.

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### randBetween

▸ **randBetween**(`max`, `min?`): `bigint`

Returns a cryptographically secure random integer between [min,max].

**`Throws`**

RangeError if max <= min

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `max` | `bigint` | Returned value will be <= max |
| `min` | `bigint` | Returned value will be >= min |

#### Returns

`bigint`

A cryptographically secure random bigint between [min,max]

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### randBits

▸ **randBits**(`bitLength`, `forceLength?`): `Promise`<`Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`\>

Secure random bits for both node and browsers. Node version uses crypto.randomFill() and browser one self.crypto.getRandomValues()

**`Throws`**

RangeError if bitLength < 1

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `bitLength` | `number` | `undefined` | The desired number of random bits |
| `forceLength` | `boolean` | `false` | Set to true if you want to force the output to have a specific bit length. It basically forces the msb to be 1 |

#### Returns

`Promise`<`Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`\>

A Promise that resolves to a UInt8Array/Buffer (Browser/Node.js) filled with cryptographically secure random bits

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### randBitsSync

▸ **randBitsSync**(`bitLength`, `forceLength?`): `Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`

Secure random bits for both node and browsers. Node version uses crypto.randomFill() and browser one self.crypto.getRandomValues()

**`Throws`**

RangeError if bitLength < 1

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `bitLength` | `number` | `undefined` | The desired number of random bits |
| `forceLength` | `boolean` | `false` | Set to true if you want to force the output to have a specific bit length. It basically forces the msb to be 1 |

#### Returns

`Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`

A Uint8Array/Buffer (Browser/Node.js) filled with cryptographically secure random bits

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### randBytes

▸ **randBytes**(`byteLength`, `forceLength?`): `Promise`<`Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`\>

Secure random bytes for both node and browsers. Node version uses crypto.randomBytes() and browser one self.crypto.getRandomValues()

**`Throws`**

RangeError if byteLength < 1

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `byteLength` | `number` | `undefined` | The desired number of random bytes |
| `forceLength` | `boolean` | `false` | Set to true if you want to force the output to have a bit length of 8*byteLength. It basically forces the msb to be 1 |

#### Returns

`Promise`<`Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`\>

A promise that resolves to a UInt8Array/Buffer (Browser/Node.js) filled with cryptographically secure random bytes

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### randBytesSync

▸ **randBytesSync**(`byteLength`, `forceLength?`): `Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`

Secure random bytes for both node and browsers. Node version uses crypto.randomFill() and browser one self.crypto.getRandomValues()
This is the synchronous version, consider using the asynchronous one for improved efficiency.

**`Throws`**

RangeError if byteLength < 1

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `byteLength` | `number` | `undefined` | The desired number of random bytes |
| `forceLength` | `boolean` | `false` | Set to true if you want to force the output to have a bit length of 8*byteLength. It basically forces the msb to be 1 |

#### Returns

`Uint8Array` \| `Buffer`

A UInt8Array/Buffer (Browser/Node.js) filled with cryptographically secure random bytes

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### toZn

▸ **toZn**(`a`, `n`): `bigint`

Finds the smallest positive element that is congruent to a in modulo n

**`Remarks`**

a and b must be the same type, either number or bigint

**`Throws`**

RangeError if n <= 0

#### Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| :------ | :------ | :------ |
| `a` | `number` \| `bigint` | An integer |
| `n` | `number` \| `bigint` | The modulo |

#### Returns

`bigint`

A bigint with the smallest positive representation of a modulo n