ring VS CppCoreGuidelines

Compare ring vs CppCoreGuidelines and see what are their differences.

ring

Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust (by briansmith)

CppCoreGuidelines

The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++ (by isocpp)
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ring CppCoreGuidelines
28 306
3,541 41,290
- 0.8%
9.8 7.6
6 days ago 17 days ago
Assembly Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ring

Posts with mentions or reviews of ring. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-12.
  • AWS Libcrypto for Rust
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2024
    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
    9 projects | dev.to | 24 Dec 2023
  • Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
  • A brief guide to choosing TLS crates
    5 projects | /r/rust | 9 Jun 2023
    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
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2022
  • Releasing Rust Binaries with GitHub Actions - Part 2
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Nov 2022
    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.
  • Urgent Upcoming OpenSSL release patches critical vulnerability
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2022
    Ring, unfortunately, has quite toxic project leadership with a history of making hostile decisions towards their contributors and userbase ( see https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/774 for one example ). Something to be aware of if you're considering building with it.
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2022
    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
  • OpenSSL Security Advisory [5 July 2022]
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 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.

  • Rust's Option and Result. In Python.
    6 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jun 2022
    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)

CppCoreGuidelines

Posts with mentions or reviews of CppCoreGuidelines. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
  • Learn Modern C++
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
  • Modern C++ Programming Course
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2023
    You need to talk to Bjarne and Herb...

    "C++ Core Guidelines" - https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines

  • CLion Nova Explodes onto the C and C++ Development Scene
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2023
  • Toward a TypeScript for C++"
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
    In addition to the other comments -

    TypeScript deliberately takes a "good enough" approach to improving JavaScript, instead of designing an ideal but incompatible approach. For example, its handling of [function parameter bivariance](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...) is unsound but works much better with the existing JavaScript ecosystem. By contrast, a more academic functional programming language would guarantee a sound type system but would be a huge shift from JavaScript.

    By analogy, Herb Sutter is arguing that something like the [C++ Core Guidelines](https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines), with tooling help in this new Cpp2 syntax, can bring real improvements to safety. Something like Rust's borrow checker would bring much stricter guarantees, backed by academic research and careful design, but would be incompatible and a huge adjustment.

  • C++ is everywhere, but noone really talks about it. What are people's thoughts?
    8 projects | /r/cscareerquestions | 8 Jul 2023
    Another phenomenal resource is the ISO C++ core guidelines which is essentially a giant list of best practices of newer c++ features. These guidelines were a collaborative effort started by Bjarne Stroustrup who know a bit about c++. There is an entire section about resource management if you're interested in learning more about the newer facilities c++ offers in that regard to avoid the footguns, but there is a ton of other great information in there as well.
    8 projects | /r/cscareerquestions | 8 Jul 2023
    Take a look at Effective Modern c++ by Scott Meyers and the ISO c++ core guidelines. These resources are great for learning how to write better, more modern C++. I don't think it would be hard to grasp if you're already familiar with the language, just make sure to actually write some code which makes use of this stuff, otherwise it's easy to forget.
  • What are some C++ specific antipatterns that might be missed by C#/Java devs?
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 29 Jun 2023
    Look to the C++ Core Guidelines. It's not perfect, it has some flaws, including some sabotaging advice apparently adopted for political reasons. But at least it has some C++ authorities (Bjarne and Herb) as authors.
  • How to improve the code quality
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jun 2023
    Also, tried to follow https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines as much as I could.
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jun 2023
  • Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
    5 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jun 2023
    C++: Not memory safe and tons of ceremonial to avoid UB and have actually well defined objects, semantically: for example, rule of five. Needs to follow a huge number of "core guidelines", https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines, many of the most important are not automatically enforceable by tools. No enum types, invisible codepaths everywhere due to exceptions. Stupid textual-inclusion compilation model meaning that you need to manually track which headers should actually be included in a file (in particular, when reviewing changes to that file that may or may not render some header inclusions useless). Namespace system where the namespace is not inferred from the file/package, but explicitly declared in the file, meaning that name collisions are possible (and result in an ill formed program, no diagnostic required. Once had to debug a colleague's ODR violation that made even valgrind segfault... very fun afternoon) and should be watched for in review. No unsafe and anything could be UB, so have to be paranoid about everything that is being done.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ring and CppCoreGuidelines you can also consider the following projects:

rust-crypto - A (mostly) pure-Rust implementation of various cryptographic algorithms.

ed25519-dalek - Fast and efficient ed25519 signing and verification in Rust.

rust-openssl - OpenSSL bindings for Rust

orion - Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto [Moved to: https://github.com/orion-rs/orion]

rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust

sodiumoxide - [DEPRECATED] Sodium Oxide: Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium)

RustCrypto - Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data Algorithms: high-level encryption ciphers

rust-security-framework - Bindings to the macOS Security.framework

Crafting Interpreters - Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"

Ockam - Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.

github-cheat-sheet - A list of cool features of Git and GitHub.

LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com