I am creating a script that a user would provide a configuration file, that haves a list of: -dependencies settings ( for updating settings.js) -flows -subflows -configurations (for nodes) -nodes What i want to do also is for a user to be able to provide different credentials for different n…

[image] What encryption method is used to encrypt Flow Credentials in order to trigger flows via HTTP API? General bcrypt is a password-hashing algorthm, not an encryption scheme. If we used bcrypt for the credentials, we'd never be able to decrypt them. The code Node-RED…

The encrypt/decrypt functions are here: node-red/credentials.js at 67dd7e30faf1a6fca07f5b745de75f4ad3036ce4 · node-red/node-red · GitHub We don't expose these in any api, but you can just copy/paste them into your own code. const crypto = require('crypto') // To encrypt const originalKey = 'secret…

Hi Nick I am trying to reverse engineer this logic in python. Would there be a way where I can somehow test the decryption logic of a resultant flows_cred.json file i.e. create flows_cred.json file, mount it into a directory (via docker volumes) and see the logs of nodered whether the decryption of …

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Shan 16 May 2023 09:44 2

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Flows-cred.json decrypt/encrypt dependency

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