I would echo a lot of the comments here criticising the article title - it is (by its own admission) referring primarily to the environment in which Javascript

I would echo a lot of the comments here criticising the article title - it is (by its own admission) referring primarily to the environment in which Javascript is usually run (browsers), with very little about the language itself. So the use of the word "Javascript" in the title is very deliberately misleading. As for the rest of the title, http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html Title aside, the article is informative content-wise, but I'd personally be much more interested in an actual honest review of cryptography in Javascript the language - one that, for example, didn't choose to exclude NodeJS (or similar server-side tech). Can JS on the server do cryptography right? If not, why not?