RustCrypto
Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data Algorithms: high-level encryption ciphers (by RustCrypto)
orion
Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto (by orion-rs)
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| RustCrypto | orion | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 3 | |
| 641 | 535 | |
| 3.3% | 0.0% | |
| 7.6 | 7.4 | |
| 4 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
RustCrypto
Posts with mentions or reviews of RustCrypto.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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(Why) is a toy password manager a too complex summer project?
I would say a toy (or personal-use-only) password manager is a relatively simple project. If we are to forget about the GUI parts, you need to determine serialization of your password database (bincode + serde should be enough) and how to encrypt it. For the latter you need only two algorithms: a password hash for deriving encryption key from password and optional salt (the latter is usually randomly generated and stored as a "key file"), and an AEAD algorithm for encrypting and decrypting serialized database. There are certain pitfalls with encryption (e.g. you should not reuse nonce with the same key, especially with modes like GCM) and with properly erasing sensitive data from memory, as well as preventing it from leaking to things like swap, but learning about those is part of the learning experience.
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Announcing street-cred 0.1.1 - My first Rust crate
FYI: the rust-crypto crate is unmaintained. Take a look at https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs instead
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Help using ring to decrypt encrypted bytes using AES key (using AEAD).
For AEAD with AES, you may want to use RustCrypto (https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs.git) instead
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Dexios - a secure command-line encryption tool.
Dexios is a secure command-line encryption tool, that uses audited crates provided by the RustCrypto Team.
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Idiomatically initializing and using a variable with two different types
This is in relation to RustCrypto/AEADs#421 - myself and another user are having the exact same issue.
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SafeCloset, a Secret Safe - Why and how I made it in Rust
I choose an AEDS crate from the RustCrypto group: AES-GCM in its SIV variant (the SIV variant isn't really needed but it doesn't cost much).
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Crate for AES256 - which one to choose? Questions about block cipher modes and AEAD too.
Use RustCrypto's aes with one of its block modes (https://docs.rs/block-modes/latest/block_modes/) or AEAD algorithms (https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs). There's a lot of modular stuff in RustCrypto, just need to browse a little 😉.
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Sodiumoxide has been deprecated
crypto_secretbox: https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/tree/master/xsalsa20poly1305
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What encryption crates do you guys recommend, especially one with support for streams
I'd recommend https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs. RustCrypto's crates are high quality, widely used and some have even been audited. Unfortunately they don't provide a read/write interface.
- How to implement a simple password-based encryption with ring?
orion
Posts with mentions or reviews of orion.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.
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RiB Newsletter #31
orion. Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto.
- Orion 0.17 – X25519 with formally-verified field arithemtic and serde support
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orion 0.16 - const generics, organization changes and a new maintainer
GitHub: https://github.com/orion-rs/orion Crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/orion
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RustCrypto and orion you can also consider the following projects:
ring - Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust
ChaCha20-BLAKE2b - Committing ChaCha20-BLAKE2b, XChaCha20-BLAKE2b, and XChaCha20-BLAKE2b-SIV AEAD implementations.
rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust
matrix.to - A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix
sodiumoxide - [DEPRECATED] Sodium Oxide: Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium)
akula - Fastest Ethereum archive node ever built
rust-crypto - A (mostly) pure-Rust implementation of various cryptographic algorithms.
orion - Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto [Moved to: https://github.com/orion-rs/orion]
libjpeg-turbo - Main libjpeg-turbo repository
Ockam - Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
phc-winner-argon2 - The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC