And no, switching Buffer(number) to be zero-filled will bring more harm now, even from the security point of view. The best course of action imo is to deprecate

And no, switching Buffer(number) to be zero-filled will bring more harm now, even from the security point of view. The best course of action imo is to deprecate Buffer(number) whatsoever and replace it with two separate methods. More info here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4660#issuecomment-171262864 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4660#issuecomment-1712... I will make a separate post about that soon enough.