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 JavaScript library of crypto standards.
 
+## Discontinued
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+Active development of CryptoJS has been discontinued. This library is no longer maintained.
+
+Nowadays, NodeJS and modern browsers have a native `Crypto` module. The latest version of CryptoJS already uses the native Crypto module for random number generation, since `Math.random()` is not crypto-safe. Further development of CryptoJS would result in it only being a wrapper of native Crypto. Therefore, development and maintenance has been discontinued, it is time to go for the native `crypto` module.
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 ## Node.js (Install)
 
 Requirements: