ring VS hyper

Compare ring vs hyper and see what are their differences.

ring

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

hyper

An HTTP library for Rust (by hyperium)
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ring hyper
28 97
3,541 13,684
- 2.2%
9.8 9.2
6 days ago 1 day ago
Assembly Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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)

hyper

Posts with mentions or reviews of hyper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.

What are some alternatives?

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

reqwest - An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

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

curl-rust - Rust bindings to libcurl

warp - A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.

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

rust-openssl - OpenSSL bindings for Rust

tower - async fn(Request) -> Result<Response, Error>

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