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AWS Libcrypto for Rust
Again, this is just a temporary situation, and a matter of burning down a list of small tasks. Not that the OpenSSL license issue is a big deal for most anyway. Feel free to help; see this issue filed by Josh Triplett: https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/1318#issuecomment-...
- Boletín AWS Open Source, Christmas Edition
- Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
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A brief guide to choosing TLS crates
Note also that rustls depends on ring, which has architecture-dependent code in it that is not as widely compatible as eg. OpenSSL/GnuTLS/Mbed-TLS. For example, MIPS is not supported by ring.
- Data-driven performance optimization with Rust and Miri
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Releasing Rust Binaries with GitHub Actions - Part 2
The AWS Rust library we were using as a dependency depended on a cryptography library called ring. This library leverages C and assembly code to implement its cryptographic primitives. Unfortunately, cross compiling when C is involved can add complexity to the build process. While it might've been possible to overcome these issues I decided that it wasn't worth digging into more.
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Urgent Upcoming OpenSSL release patches critical vulnerability
That'd be great. Thanks Brian. Re: making ring portable to all platforms: IBM have been graciously maintaining a up to date patchset for Ring for years now and there's an outstanding PR here you may not have seen since they filed it in 2020... https://github.com/briansmith/ring/pull/1057
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OpenSSL Security Advisory [5 July 2022]
Beyond the simple matter of Rust being much newer than OpenSSL, one concern for some cryptographic primitives is the timing side-channel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack
In high level languages like Rust, the compiler does not prioritise trying to emit machine code which executes in constant time for all inputs. OpenSSL has implementations for some primitives which are known to be constant time, which can be important.
One option if you're working with Rust anyway would be use something like Ring:
https://github.com/briansmith/ring
Ring's primitives are just taken from BoringSSL which is Google's fork of OpenSSL, they're a mix of C and assembly language, it's possible (though fraught) to write some constant time algorithms in C if you know which compiler will be used, and of course it's possible (if you read the performance manuals carefully) to write constant time assembly in many cases.
In the C / assembly language code of course you do not have any safety benefits.
It can certainly make sense to do this very tricky primitive stuff in dangerous C or assembly, but then write all the higher level stuff in Rust, and that's the sort of thing Ring is intended for. BoringSSL for example includes code to do X.509 parsing and signature validation in C, but those things aren't sensitive, a timing attack on my X.509 parsing tells you nothing of value, and it's complicated to do correctly so Rust could make sense.
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Rust's Option and Result. In Python.
machine learning, neural networks, image processing, cryptography (though it is getting better), font shaping/rendering (though it is getting better), CPU/software rendering (though it is getting better)
- Mega: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry
RustCrypto
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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?
What are some alternatives?
rust-crypto - A (mostly) pure-Rust implementation of various cryptographic algorithms.
rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust
ed25519-dalek - Fast and efficient ed25519 signing and verification in Rust.
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]
Ockam - Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
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