I am trying to generate JWT in React Native. The react-native-jwt
module is based on Node's jwt-simple
. It uses react-native-crypto
, which is a partial clone of crypto-browserify
with certain workarounds to get crypto
working outside of the web browser.
The problem is that randombytes
(subdependency of react-native-jwt
) can't find crypto
.
browser.js
:
'use strict'
function oldBrowser () {
throw new Error('secure random number generation not supported by this browser\nuse chrome, FireFox or Internet Explorer 11')
}
var crypto = global.crypto || global.msCrypto // GETS SET TO 'UNDEFINED'
if (crypto && crypto.getRandomValues) {
module.exports = randomBytes
} else {
module.exports = oldBrowser
}
function randomBytes (size, cb) {
// phantomjs needs to throw
if (size > 65536) throw new Error('requested too many random bytes')
// in case browserify isn't using the Uint8Array version
var rawBytes = new global.Uint8Array(size)
// This will not work in older browsers.
// See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.crypto.getRandomValues
if (size > 0) { // getRandomValues fails on IE if size == 0
crypto.getRandomValues(rawBytes)
}
// phantomjs doesn't like a buffer being passed here
var bytes = new Buffer(rawBytes.buffer)
if (typeof cb === 'function') {
return process.nextTick(function () {
cb(null, bytes)
})
}
return bytes
}
Note: It appears that crypto is only available on Android and I need it on iOS.