topkat-utils/src/encryptionUtils.ts

A comprehensive collection of TypeScript/JavaScript utility functions for common programming tasks. Includes validation, object manipulation, date handling, string formatting, and more. Zero dependencies, fully typed, and optimized for performance.

const possibleChars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_$'
const getCharAt = (n: number) => {
    if (n >= possibleChars.length) return possibleChars[n - possibleChars.length]
    if (n < 0) return possibleChars[n + possibleChars.length]
    else return possibleChars[n]
}
const getCharIndex = (char: string) => {
    return possibleChars.indexOf(char)
}


/** simple and quick encoding, this is meant to obfuscate JWT encoding so we can
not decode it with something like https://jwt.io/
* * ⚠️🚸 special characters are actually not supported
* * string will be obfuscated so the characters are not in order
 */
function simpleEncryption(strR: string, secret: string, decode = false): string {

    const secretNb = secret.split('').map(char => char.charCodeAt(0) % 16 || -1)
    const secretLength = secretNb.length
    const str = decode ? strR : strR.replace(/\./g, '$')

    const parsed = str.split('').map((char, i) => {
        const charI = getCharIndex(char) // convert character to number
        const newIndex = charI + (secretNb[i % secretLength] * (decode ? -1 : 1)) // obfuscate
        return getCharAt(newIndex)
    }).join('')

    return decode ? parsed.replace(/\$/g, '.') : parsed
}

export function simpleEncryptionEncode(str: string, secret: string) {
    const strFromStart = [] as string[]
    const strFromEnd = [] as string[]
    str.split('').forEach((char, i) => {
        if (i % 2) strFromStart.push(char)
        else strFromEnd.push(char)
    })
    return simpleEncryption(strFromStart.join('') + strFromEnd.reverse().join(''), secret, false)
}

export function simpleEncryptionDecode(str: string, secret: string) {
    const decoded = simpleEncryption(str, secret, true)
    const newStr = [] as string[]
    const decodedArr = decoded.split('')
    let i = 0
    while (decodedArr.length) {
        if (i++ % 2) newStr.push(decodedArr.shift() as string)
        else newStr.push(decodedArr.pop() as string)
    }
    return newStr.join('')
}