Javascript: Convert Yubico “modhex” strings to hex

Are you using a Yubikey and want to create your custom Keyserver written in Node.js ? In this case this piece of code might be useful :)

/**
 * Convert the Yubico MODHEX encoded Strings to hex
 * @param modhex String
 * @returns hex String
 */
var modhex2hex = function(modhex){
    // strip whitespaces and string cleanup - all non matching characters are 0x00 (c in modhex)
    modhex = modhex.replace(/\s*/g, '').replace(/[^cbdefghijklnrtuv]/g, 'c');

    // even length ?
    if (modhex.length%2 !== 0){
        return null;
    }

    // modhex mapping base; c.....v => 0x0 ... 0xF
    var modhexBase = 'cbdefghijklnrtuv'.split('');

    // tmp
    var output = '';

    // convert
    for (var i=0;i<modhex.length;i++){
        // convert index to hex
        output += modhexBase.indexOf(modhex.charAt(i)).toString(16);
    }

    return output;
};

console.log(modhex2hex('te vt hh fg ue dk gv rt lv hb lu gf nk ge ng cv'));