openssl error 'error:03000086:digital envelop routines::initialization error'

[Wintaru]

While trying to run this as per the tutorial, I get this error:

  this[kHandle] = new _Hash(algorithm, xofLen);
                  ^

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:69:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:138:10)
    at BulkUpdateDecorator.hashFactory 
    ....
  opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'
}

A work around is to set NODE_OPTIONS to use --openssl-legacy-provider (on MacOS I ran export NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider) and it resolved the issue.