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Discussion on: I need to encrypt and decrypt data between Reactjs and python

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Médéric Burlet

Do you really need encryption? If you use HTTPS you already have encryption in the communication.

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himanshu rathi

yeah I am using HTTPS but some key and its value is visible in preview of network tab

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Médéric Burlet • Edited

Clearly you have a misunderstanding on how HTTPS protocol works. It stops people wiretapping (ie: wireshark) your browser intercepts data pre packet encryption and transmission.
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