During Sprint Retrospective 6 I continued to learn more about the CryptoJS library, encryption, Angular, and Git. From the CryptoJS npm page, this code snippet helped me understand how data is encrypted and decrypted using the CryptoJS library:
var CryptoJS = require("crypto-js");
var data = [{id: 1}, {id: 2}]
// Encrypt
var ciphertext = CryptoJS.AES.encrypt(JSON.stringify(data), 'secret key 123');
// Decrypt
var bytes = CryptoJS.AES.decrypt(ciphertext.toString(), 'secret key 123');
var decryptedData = JSON.parse(bytes.toString(CryptoJS.enc.Utf8));
console.log(decryptedData);
My job on the team was to implement a function to encrypt a data record, I also added the decryption function as they go hand-in-hand. The example shown above is in Javascript but easily implemented them into a Typescript file. The following are the functions I came up with in my encryption / decryption service file:
Encrypt a Record
public encryptRecord(data: any[], privateKey: string) : string{
let ciphertext = CryptoJS.AES.encrypt(JSON.stringify(data), privateKey);
return ciphertext;
}
This function takes a set of data, and a given private key, encrypts the data, and returns and the encrypted string.
Decrypt a Record
public decryptRecord(ciphertext: string, privateKey: string) : string{
let bytes = CryptoJS.AES.decrypt(ciphertext.toString(), privateKey);
let decryptedData = JSON.parse(bytes.toString(CryptoJS.enc.Utf8));
return decryptedData;
}
This function takes the encrypted string, and a private key and returns the decrypted string.
I learned a lot of information about Typescript and web applications, I learned more about Node.js, encryption, and Javascript. I feel this information will help me in my professional career, especially if I am working with web development and API’s. I am interesting in further contributing to this open source project, and possibly more. I would like to improve my skills in Javascript and Angular. I would like to learn more about Angular testing and continue to work on the tests I wrote for my functions, to make sure they are working properly.
The team was successful in finding a suitable cryptography library that had all the features we were looking for, but we did run into trouble getting CryptoJS implemented in the ampath application. I successfully implemented the features for encrypting and decrypting a data record, hopefully it will be used to help future teams encrypt patient data. I think I spent too much time researching and not enough time actually working with the ampath application. I did find though that the solution I needed was easier that I thought it would be. We all hit some roadblocks getting things to always work, sometimes the ampath application would give us compilation errors out of nowhere.
During this Sprint we continued working on our respective parts of the encryption service. I successfully wrote two functions, one to encrypt a data record and one to decrypt a data record. I wrote test files for the functions that I believe will work but had some trouble getting the tests to work. Once we made the decision to use CryptoJS, I used this source to help me contribute my part to the project. I pushed my part of the project to my local repository and then made a pull request for the group repository. I did have some trouble with Git dealing with merge conflicts and setting the remote, but feel I was due for a refresher and eventually solved my problems.
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