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Encryption Primer When we specify that things need to be encrypted, it usually means we need to keep those things secret. Encryption in this sense encompasses all the ways to protect information, including public key encryption, cryptographic hashing, digital signatures as well as all the things that support it such as security certificates and key management. Working in a React Native, NodeJS/NPM, JS/ES6 environment, there are many more things to think about than simply calling the OS encryption library and feeling pretty good that's handled. This page is meant to list the available options, applicability to various tasks and the supporting infrastructure required when you need to encrypt meaningful data. An important criteria in evaluating a crypto library is any validation or approval from a standards body. Anybody can implement and publish a npm crypto library, implementing standard cryptographic algorithms - but there is no guarantee with most that they a