DPAPI or something similar

[jssuttles]

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Current/Missing Behavior

I'm looking for something that will be able to encrypt and decrypt data for a machine. I see that electron has something like https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/safe-storage. I've tried incorporating keytar (which is archived) or @azure/msal-node-extensions (https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js/tree/dev/extensions/msal-node-extensions). The latter was promising, but I couldn't get nwjs to run it. I was able to get it running in a node.js environment, but when I tried to get it to run using nwjs, it would stall out. When I tried to create a fork in nwjs into node.js, it also failed to load.

Expected/Proposed Behavior

There is a way to encrypt and decrypt data using something like DPAPI for windows.

Additional Info

• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro
• NW.js Version: 0.89.0
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[ayushmanchhabra]

If MSAL runs in Node, it should run in NW.js. You'll have to rebuild the native modules using NW.js's Node headers.

node-gyp rebuild --target=22.2.0 --nodedir=path/to/nw/node/headers

Using 22.2.0 since nw version is 0.89.0

[ayushmanchhabra]

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp?tab=readme-ov-file#build-for-third-party-nodejs-runtimes
node-gyp has supported third party runtimes for a while. NW.js v0.89.0 uses Node v22.2.0. node-gyp v10 should be compatible with it but I haven't personally tried it out.