RustCrypto
Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data Algorithms: high-level encryption ciphers (by RustCrypto)
rust-crypto
A (mostly) pure-Rust implementation of various cryptographic algorithms. (by DaGenix)
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| RustCrypto | rust-crypto | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 2 | |
| 641 | 1,357 | |
| 3.3% | - | |
| 7.6 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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?
rust-crypto
Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-crypto.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-12.
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Should we be worried about proliferation of unsafe in Rust code?
3680 in azul 147 in rayon 2 functions and 1 pattern match in ripgrep 25 in rust-crypto
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Crate for AES256 - which one to choose? Questions about block cipher modes and AEAD too.
rust-crypto (GitHub: DaGenix / rust-crypto) good: support for different algorithms I wanna use for enrypting hashing (the latter is for another project) good: seems easy to use according to the example bad: no audit yet bad: don't know if still maintained, last commit on GitHub is from September 2016
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RustCrypto and rust-crypto you can also consider the following projects:
ring - Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust
rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust
curve25519-dalek - A pure-Rust implementation of group operations on Ristretto and Curve25519
sodiumoxide - [DEPRECATED] Sodium Oxide: Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium)
rust-openssl - OpenSSL bindings for Rust
orion - Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto [Moved to: https://github.com/orion-rs/orion]
ed25519-dalek - Fast and efficient ed25519 signing and verification in Rust.
Ockam - Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
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