In my quest to encrypt and decrypt data in react-native, I embarked on using the crypto node module by incorporating it into my react native project through browserify. While attempting encryption with the code snippet provided below, an error surfaces stating: TypeError: The first argument must be one of type string, Buffer, ArrayBuffer, Array, or Array-like Object. Received type object in cryptoJS. Interestingly, the same code functions correctly in nodeJS but encounters this issue in react native. What could possibly be the mistake here? My suspicion is that the problem stems from the statement involving BUffer.from which seems to suggest that variable k is not recognized as an array or similar object. However, this remains a mere assumption and I am uncertain about the actual root cause.
const algorithm = 'des-ede';
const key = [
43,
57,
97,
-68,
-63,
-61,
-40,
9,
50,
87,
-104,
101,
63,
34,
-78,
60,
];
var CryptoJS = require('../crypto/crypto');
var k = new Buffer.from(key);
let cipher = CryptoJS.createCipheriv(algorithm, k, null);
cipher.setAutoPadding(true); //default true
var ciph = cipher.update("Hello World!'", 'utf8', 'base64');
ciph += cipher.final('base64');
console.log(ciph);