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RustCrypto Release Announcements: `aead` v0.4, `cipher` v0.3, `crypto` v0.2, `elliptic-curve` v0.9, `ecdsa` v0.11
For ECIES that'd probably be something like HPKE. HPKE isn't specific to ECC though, and is defined in terms of a KEM, so the first step there would probably be defining KEM traits which would allow you to plug in ECDH or potentially a post-quantum algorithm or RSA.
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The last and next year of image-rs
No need for eternal stability. It would be indeed nice to get the API right the first time, but in practice it's borderline impossible to do. It's fine for trait crates to introduce breaking changes from time to time, especially for pre-1.0 ones. For prior art you can take a look at rand_core or RustCrypto trait crates.
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What’s everyone working on this week (8/2021)?
I finally dusted off my barely-working git hosting solution and added a basic user account system. It took me some time to understand how exactly I was supposed to use password-hash in combination with my hashing function of choice, as well as with the DB. Using sqlx together with Rocket turned out to be somewhat easy once I figured out that I should disregard the built-in database support, since it's seemingly incompatible with sqlx.
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Go vs Rust for crypto implementations
The main difference between those two languages, I think you should look at, is power of type system. A good type system allows to encode various invariants checked at compile time, help with interoperability, and even improve performance a bit (e.g. by eliminating runtime-checks). In this regard Rust is far, far ahead of Go in my opinion and continues to improve in this regard (e.g. soon we will have const generics). For example, in RustCrypto we have trait crates which contain "interfaces" of several algorithm types. Almost all algorithm implementations in this org (and some third-party implementations) are implemented in terms of those traits, which means you can easily swap algorithms with each other and combine them like Lego blocks, without diving deep into source code. This property is especially important if you want to support less common algorithms (e.g. regional standards or newly developed algorithms).
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- Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
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DevOps Style Development for the C64
Interesting! I wrote an assembler for the 6502 a while ago that works along the same lines. It supports running unit tests from the command-line, has a built-in 6502 emulator, uses the language server protocol to allow refactoring and syntax highlighting in VS Code and even hooks the VS Code debugger up to Vice.
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What's everyone working on this week (15/2021)?
Still working on mos, my 6502 assembler + toolchain. I've spent some evenings getting up to speed with the Debug Adapter Protocol, which allows me to provide a debugger in supported IDEs (like Visual Studio Code). Currently I'm wiring up the VICE emulator to this.
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What's everyone working on this week (10/2021)?
I've just released version 0.2.0 of MOS, my assembler for 6502 CPUs. Apart from spending some additional time on docs, I've spent most of my time on building a Language Server and an initial VSCode extension that supports things like syntax highlighting, find definition, formatting, etc.
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BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders
That CPU is still going strong. In fact, I'm currently building an assembler for the 6502 in Rust.
https://mos.datatra.sh
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What’s everyone working on this week (8/2021)?
I just released version 0.1.0 of my 6502 assembler/formatter called MOS! Really happy about it, since it's the first side-project I've actually managed to get to this state in a VERY long time.
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What's everyone working on this week (6/2021)?
Having said that, you're welcome to follow the repo on GitHub.
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