Gathering detailed insights and metrics for @bitauth/libauth
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for @bitauth/libauth
An ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency TypeScript library for Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, and Bitauth applications.
Installations
npm install @bitauth/libauthDeveloper Guide
BETA
Typescript
Yes
Module System
ESM
Min. Node Version
^12.20.0 || ^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0
Node Version
20.12.1
NPM Version
10.5.0
Score
99
Supply Chain
100
Quality
79.6
Maintenance
100
Vulnerability
100
License
Releases
7
Languages
4
TypeScript
JavaScript
Rust
Dockerfile
TypeScript (82.21%)
JavaScript (17.4%)
Rust (0.25%)
Dockerfile (0.14%)
Developer
Download Statistics
Total Downloads
5,621,179
Last Day
10,128
Last Week
61,245
Last Month
273,797
Last Year
2,739,919
GitHub Statistics
MIT License
281 Stars
323 Commits
56 Forks
12 Watchers
11 Branches
12 Contributors
Updated on May 22, 2025
Maintainers
1
Package Meta Information
Latest Version
3.0.0
Package Id
@bitauth/libauth@3.0.0
Unpacked Size
4.22 MB
Size
0.98 MB
File Count
340
NPM Version
10.5.0
Node Version
20.12.1
Published on
Apr 10, 2024
Total Downloads
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
5,621,179
Last Day
5.5%
10,128
Compared to previous day
Last Week
-7.9%
61,245
Compared to previous week
Last Month
12.6%
273,797
Compared to previous month
Last Year
38.8%
2,739,919
Compared to previous year
Weekly Downloads
Monthly Downloads
Yearly Downloads
Dev Dependencies
45
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An ultra-lightweight JavaScript library for Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, and Bitauth applications.
Libauth
An ultra-lightweight JavaScript library for Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, and Bitauth applications.
Libauth has no dependencies and works in all JavaScript environments, including Node.js, Deno, and browsers.
Purpose
Libauth is designed to be flexible, lightweight, and easily auditable. Rather than providing a single, overarching, object-oriented API, all functionality is composed from simple functions. This has several benefits:
- Flexibility – Even highly-complex functionality is built-up from simpler functions. These lower-level functions can be used to experiment, tweak, and remix your own higher-level methods without maintaining a fork of the library.
- Smaller application bundles – Applications can import only the methods they need, eliminating the unused code (via dead-code elimination).
- Better auditability – Beyond having no dependencies of its own, Libauth's functional programming approach makes auditing critical code easier: smaller bundles, smaller functions, and less churn between versions (fewer cascading changes to object-oriented interfaces).
- Fully-portable – No platform-specific APIs are ever used, so the same code paths are used across all JavaScript environments (reducing the auditable "surface area" and simplifying library development).
Quick Start
To get started, install @bitauth/libauth:
1npm install @bitauth/libauth 2# OR 3yarn add @bitauth/libauth
And import the functionality you need:
1import { secp256k1 } from '@bitauth/libauth'; 2import { msgHash, pubkey, sig } from 'somewhere'; 3 4secp256k1.verifySignatureDERLowS(sig, pubkey, msgHash) 5 ? console.log('🚀 Signature valid') 6 : console.log('❌ Signature invalid');
See Installation for more guidance on getting set up.
Guides
These guides introduce some of the high-level concepts and functionality provided by Libauth.
- Installation
- Handling Errors
- Cryptography
- Keys
- Addresses
- Verifying Transactions
- Wallets & Transaction Creation
More Examples
In addition to the usage examples in these guides, note that Libauth includes comprehensive tests that can help demonstrate usage of all functionality.
For example, utilities related to hexadecimal-encoded strings are defined in hex.ts; for thorough usage examples, see the co-located hex.spec.ts. You can also use GitHub search to see how a particular utility is used throughout the library, e.g. splitEvery.
API Overview
Below is a partial selection of functionality provided by Libauth. If you're looking for something else, be sure to search the API Reference.
High-level utilities are composed from lower-level utilities which are also exported, so it's often possible to remix behavior in your own codebase with relatively little duplication or maintenance burden. See the Defined in ... link on each utility's API reference page to review and copy the implementation.
Table of Contents
Address Formats
Base58 Addresses
encodeBase58Address/decodeBase58AddressencodeBase58AddressFormat/decodeBase58AddressFormatlockingBytecodeToBase58Address/base58AddressToLockingBytecode
Bech32
CashAddress
encodeCashAddress/decodeCashAddresslockingBytecodeToCashAddress/cashAddressToLockingBytecodedecodeCashAddressFormatWithoutPrefixencodeCashAddressVersionByte/decodeCashAddressVersionByte
CashAddress-like Formats
attemptCashAddressFormatErrorCorrectionencodeCashAddressFormat/decodeCashAddressFormatencodeCashAddressNonStandard/decodeCashAddressNonStandard
Crypto
hash160(sha256->ripemd160)hash256(sha256->sha256)hmacSha256hmacSha512instantiateHmacFunctioninstantiatePbkdf2Functionpbkdf2HmacSha256pbkdf2HmacSha512ripemd160secp256k1sha1sha256sha512
Formats
Base-N Conversion
Base64
Binary Strings (e.g. 00101010)
Hex (Hexadecimal-Encoded Strings)
Logging
Numbers
bigIntToBinUint256BEClamped/binToBigIntUint256BEbigIntToBinUint64LE(bigIntToBinUint64LEClamped)/binToBigIntUint64LEbigIntToBinUintLE/binToBigIntUintLEbinToBigIntUintBE/bigIntToBinUintBEint32SignedToUnsigned/int32UnsignedToSignednumberToBinInt16LE/binToNumberInt16LEnumberToBinInt32LE/binToNumberInt32LEnumberToBinInt32TwosComplimentnumberToBinUintLE/binToNumberUintLEnumberToBinUint16BEnumberToBinUint16LE(numberToBinUint16LEClamped)/binToNumberUint16LEnumberToBinUint32BEnumberToBinUint32LE(numberToBinUint32LEClamped)/binToNumberUint32LE
CompactUint (A.K.A. "VarInt" or "CompactSize")
compactUintToBigInt/bigIntToCompactUintcompactUintPrefixToSizereadCompactUintreadCompactUintMinimal
Satoshi Values
VM Numbers (A.K.A. "ScriptNum")
Miscellaneous
Time
UTF8
Keys
BIP32 Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Keys
crackHdPrivateNodeFromHdPublicNodeAndChildPrivateNodedecodeHdKey(decodeHdKeyUnchecked)decodeHdPrivateKey/encodeHdPrivateKeydecodeHdPublicKey/encodeHdPrivateKeyderiveHdPathderiveHdPathRelativederiveHdPrivateNodeFromSeedderiveHdPrivateNodeIdentifier/deriveHdPublicNodeIdentifierderiveHdPrivateNodeChild/deriveHdPublicNodeChildderiveHdPublicKeyderiveHdPublicNodehdKeyVersionIsPrivateKey/hdKeyVersionIsPublicKeyhdPrivateKeyToIdentifier/hdPublicKeyToIdentifier
BIP39 Mnemonic Phrases
deriveHdPrivateNodeFromBip39MnemonicderiveSeedFromBip39MnemonicencodeBip39Mnemonic/decodeBip39MnemonicgenerateBip39Mnemonic
Wallet Import Format (WIF)
Key Utilities
generateDeterministicEntropygenerateHdPrivateNodegeneratePrivateKeygenerateRandomBytesgenerateRandomSeedminimumEventsPerEntropyBitsshannonEntropyPerEventvalidateSecp256k1PrivateKey
P2P Messages
Decoding Utilities
readBytesreadCompactUintPrefixedBinreadRemainingBytesreadUint32LEreadUint64LEreadMultiplereadItemCount
Transactions
encodeTransaction/decodeTransaction(decodeTransactionUnsafe)encodeTransactionOutputs/decodeTransactionOutputshashTransactionhashTransactionP2pOrderhashTransactionUiOrder
Outputs
isArbitraryDataOutputisSimpleMultisigisStandardOutputBytecodeisStandardOutputBytecode2023isStandardMultisigisWitnessProgram
Dust Calculation
Virtual Machines
Built-In VMs
createInstructionSetBCHcreateInstructionSetBCH2022createInstructionSetBCH2023createInstructionSetBCHCHIPscreateInstructionSetXECcreateVirtualMachinecreateVirtualMachineBCHcreateVirtualMachineBCH2022createVirtualMachineBCH2023createVirtualMachineBCHCHIPscreateVirtualMachineXEC
Debugging
assembleBytecodeassembleBytecodeBCHassembleBytecodeBTCdisassembleBytecodedisassembleBytecodeBCHdisassembleBytecodeBTCgenerateBytecodeMapsummarizeDebugTracestringifyDebugTraceSummarysummarizeStack
Combinators
combineOperationsmapOverOperationspushToStackpushToStackCheckedpushToStackVmNumberpushToStackVmNumberCheckeduseOneStackItemuseTwoStackItemsuseThreeStackItemsuseFourStackItemsuseSixStackItemsuseOneVmNumberuseTwoVmNumbersuseThreeVmNumbers
Wallet Engine
Bitcoin Cash Metadata Registries (BCMRs)
CashAssembly Language & Compiler
allErrorsAreRecoverablecashAssemblyToBincompileScriptcontainsRangecreateCompilerextractBytecodeResolutionsextractEvaluationSamplesextractEvaluationSamplesRecursiveextractUnexecutedRangesgetResolutionErrorsmergeRangesparseScriptresolveVariableIdentifierstringifyErrorsverifyCashAssemblyEvaluationStatewalletTemplateToCompilerConfigurationwalletTemplateToCompilerBCH
Multi-Party Compilation
P2PKH Utilities
hdPrivateKeyToP2pkhLockingBytecodehdPrivateKeyToP2pkhCashAddresshdPublicKeyToP2pkhLockingBytecodehdPublicKeyToP2pkhCashAddressprivateKeyToP2pkhLockingBytecodeprivateKeyToP2pkhCashAddresspublicKeyToP2pkhLockingBytecodepublicKeyToP2pkhCashAddress
Wallet Templates
VMB Tests
Libauth's test suite includes a set of cross-implementation Virtual Machine Bytecode (VMB) test vectors for each supported VM. See Libauth VMB Tests for details.
CashAssembly
CashAssembly is the assembly language used by Libauth's Wallet Templates. To learn more about CashAssembly, read the Bitauth IDE Guide.
Contributing
Pull Requests welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
No vulnerabilities found.
Reason
no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Reason
security policy file detected
Details
- Info: security policy file detected: SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found linked content: SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found disclosure, vulnerability, and/or timelines in security policy: SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found text in security policy: SECURITY.md:1
Reason
license file detected
Details
- Info: project has a license file: LICENSE:0
- Info: FSF or OSI recognized license: MIT License: LICENSE:0
Reason
project is fuzzed
Details
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/address/base58-address.spec.ts:22
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/address/bech32.spec.ts:16
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/address/bech32.spec.ts:17
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/address/cash-address.spec.ts:36
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/crypto/hash.spec.helper.ts:12
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/crypto/hmac.spec.ts:14
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/crypto/secp256k1.spec.ts:19
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/base-convert.spec.ts:18
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/bin-string.spec.ts:5
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/hex.spec.ts:12
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/number.spec.ts:42
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/time.spec.ts:16
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/utf8.spec.ts:12
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/format/utf8.spec.ts:13
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/key/bip39.spec.ts:42
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/key/hd-key.spec.ts:57
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/key/key-utils.spec.ts:20
- Info: TypeScriptPropertyBasedTesting integration found: src/lib/vm/instruction-sets/common/instruction-sets-utils.spec.ts:29
Reason
binaries present in source code
Details
- Warn: binary detected: src/lib/bin/ripemd160/ripemd160.wasm:1
- Warn: binary detected: src/lib/bin/secp256k1/secp256k1.wasm:1
- Warn: binary detected: src/lib/bin/sha1/sha1.wasm:1
- Warn: binary detected: src/lib/bin/sha256/sha256.wasm:1
- Warn: binary detected: src/lib/bin/sha512/sha512.wasm:1
Reason
dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 3
Details
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/benchmark.yml:20: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/benchmark.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/benchmark.yml:24: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/benchmark.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/ci.yml:15: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/ci.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/ci.yml:19: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/ci.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: third-party GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/ci.yml:32: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/ci.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/ci.yml:43: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/ci.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/ci.yml:47: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/ci.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/doc.yml:22: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/doc.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/doc.yml:26: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/doc.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/doc.yml:36: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/doc.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/doc.yml:38: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/doc.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/doc.yml:43: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/doc.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/release.yml:22: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/release.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/release.yml:26: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/release.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: third-party GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/release.yml:36: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/bitauth/libauth/release.yml/master?enable=pin
- Info: 0 out of 13 GitHub-owned GitHubAction dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 2 third-party GitHubAction dependencies pinned
- Info: 2 out of 2 containerImage dependencies pinned
Reason
Found 3/22 approved changesets -- score normalized to 1
Reason
SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 1
Details
- Warn: 2 commits out of 15 are checked with a SAST tool
Reason
0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Reason
detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Details
- Info: jobLevel 'issues' permission set to 'read': .github/workflows/release.yml:17
- Warn: jobLevel 'packages' permission set to 'write': .github/workflows/release.yml:18
- Warn: jobLevel 'contents' permission set to 'write': .github/workflows/release.yml:15
- Warn: topLevel 'contents' permission set to 'write': .github/workflows/benchmark.yml:8
- Warn: topLevel 'deployments' permission set to 'write': .github/workflows/benchmark.yml:9
- Warn: no topLevel permission defined: .github/workflows/ci.yml:1
- Info: topLevel 'contents' permission set to 'read': .github/workflows/doc.yml:9
- Warn: no topLevel permission defined: .github/workflows/release.yml:1
Reason
no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Reason
branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
Details
- Warn: branch protection not enabled for branch 'master'
Reason
27 existing vulnerabilities detected
Details
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: RUSTSEC-2020-0146 / GHSA-3358-4f7f-p4j4
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-968p-4wvh-cqc8
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-xq7p-g2vc-g82p
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-grv7-fg5c-xmjg
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-pxg6-pf52-xh8x
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-434g-2637-qmqr
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-49q7-c7j4-3p7m
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-977x-g7h5-7qgw
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-f7q4-pwc6-w24p
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-fc9h-whq2-v747
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-vjh7-7g9h-fjfh
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vc
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-qw6h-vgh9-j6wx
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-8gh8-hqwg-xf34
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-2p57-rm9w-gvfp
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-952p-6rrq-rcjv
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-mwcw-c2x4-8c55
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-9wv6-86v2-598j
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-rhx6-c78j-4q9w
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-x3m3-4wpv-5vgc
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-gcx4-mw62-g8wm
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-584q-6j8j-r5pm
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-m6fv-jmcg-4jfg
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-f5x3-32g6-xq36
Score
3.6
/10
Last Scanned on 2025-05-19
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