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Should encryption and hashing functions be converted to be asynchronous?

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#2,240 opened on Sep 17, 2016

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Description

I noticed the use of the crypto library implements synchronous operations. Should this be dropped for use of asynchronous? Under heavy server load this could lock up the application right?

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Investigate the impact of synchronous crypto operations under load and consider converting to async using Node.js crypto module's async methods.
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javascriptnodejs
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backend
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Node.jsAsync programming
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