Baseline Widely available
The crypto
read-only property of the Window
interface returns the Crypto
object for this window's scope. This object gives web pages access to certain cryptographic related services.
Although the property itself is read-only, all of its methods (and the methods of its child object, SubtleCrypto
) are not read-only, and therefore vulnerable to attack by polyfill.
Although crypto
is available on all windows, the returned Crypto
object only has one usable feature in insecure contexts: the getRandomValues()
method. In general, you should use this API only in secure contexts.
An instance of the Crypto
interface, providing access to general-purpose cryptography and a strong random-number generator.
This example uses the crypto
property to access the getRandomValues()
method.
<p id="myRandText">The random numbers are:</p>
<button type="button">Generate 10 random numbers</button>
JavaScript
function genRandomNumbers() {
const array = new Uint32Array(10);
globalThis.crypto.getRandomValues(array);
const randText = document.getElementById("myRandText");
randText.textContent = `The random numbers are: ${array.join(" ")}`;
}
document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click", genRandomNumbers);
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