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Make errors more helpful

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cryptography

Research direction

Start at DecryptTransformer.js around line 100, the location linked by the issue, and inspect how the current error is constructed and which key information is available there. The work is done when the error identifies the key that caused the decryption failure; no test file is mentioned, so inspect the surrounding error-handling coverage before choosing a validation path.

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Description

https://github.com/digitalbazaar/minimal-cipher/blob/1c86ea4386d3762a24f97f1c92cdd9c99a3ef984/DecryptTransformer.js#L100

would be great to say which key exactly caused this error.

Dominant language
JavaScript
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14
Forks
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Getting set up

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First steps

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