Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
The read-only usages
property of the CryptoKey
interface indicates what can be done with the key.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
The read-only usages
property of the CryptoKey
interface indicates what can be done with the key.
An Array
of strings from the following list:
"encrypt"
: The key may be used to encrypt
messages."decrypt"
: The key may be used to decrypt
messages."sign"
: The key may be used to sign
messages."verify"
: The key may be used to verify
signatures."deriveKey"
: The key may be used in deriving a new key
."deriveBits"
: The key may be used in deriving bits
."wrapKey"
: The key may be used to wrap a key
."unwrapKey"
: The key may be used to unwrap a key
.js
const rawKey = window.crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16)); // Import an AES secret key from an ArrayBuffer containing the raw bytes. // Takes an ArrayBuffer string containing the bytes, and returns a Promise // that will resolve to a CryptoKey representing the secret key. function importSecretKey(rawKey) { return window.crypto.subtle.importKey("raw", rawKey, "AES-GCM", true, [ "encrypt", "decrypt", ]); } const key = importSecretKey(rawKey); console.log( `The following usages are reported for this key: ${key.usages.toString()}`, );
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Web Cryptography API # dom-cryptokey-usages |
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usages |
37 | 12 | 34 | No | 24 | 7 | 37 | 37 | 34 | 24 | 7 | 3.0 |
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