module name "crypto" conflicts with node's own "crypto" module

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[Gozala]

I'll try to convince nodejs folks to allow shadowing built-in modules with dependencies. It looks like there is no other reason than legacy for node to look in node/lib/ before package/node_modules/.

[mscdex]

How would you imagine being able to require() the built-in crypto if this module is found as well?

[charleshross]

Is there a point to using this lib instead of the native one? Now I'm confused

[mscdex]

@charleshross not if you're using node. These crypto functions were implemented entirely in JavaScript so my guess is that they were intended to be some kind of API-compatible version of node's built-in crypto module, but for the browser. Nowadays for that kind of situation there's a start of a module for browserify here.