crypto-rng VS crypto-numbers

Compare crypto-rng vs crypto-numbers and see what are their differences.

crypto-rng

Cryptographic random number generator. (by scrive)

crypto-numbers

DEPRECATED - use cryptonite - Cryptographic number related function and algorithms (by vincenthz)
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2.6 0.0
5 months ago about 9 years ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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crypto-rng

Posts with mentions or reviews of crypto-rng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

crypto-numbers

Posts with mentions or reviews of crypto-numbers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-12.
  • Rolling your own crypto: Everything you need to build AES from scratch
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2022
    But you're approaching it from the wrong perspective: the idea isn't to use the crypto you implement yourself, the idea is to gain a better understanding of how the "magic" works. Of course my hand-rolled RSA/AES crypto is breakable, I know that because that's the default assumption.

    It's akin to saying, "you're not allowed to build your own smoke detector because it will be unsafe!". Of course I know that, I want to understand the differences between a photoelectric and ionization smoke detector, how they work in practice, because reading some PDF schematics just doesn't cut it for me.

    I honestly don't understand the line of reasoning of all this crypto gatekeeping.

    Fun fact: while I was doing my crypto deep dive in 2015, my language of choice being Haskell, I found issues in several libraries, specifically around entropy, and even one library with modulo bias [1]. They were acknowledged and addressed. It was a super fun learning exercise, and seeing all these comments how it's supposedly almost illegal to do this misses the point of people exploring and learning in their own ways.

    https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-crypto-numbers/commit/bceb54...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crypto-rng and crypto-numbers you can also consider the following projects:

nonce - Generate cryptographic nonces.

secp256k1 - Haskell bindings for secp256k1 library

ed25519 - Minimal ed25519 Haskell package, binding to the ref10 SUPERCOP implementation.

skein - Skein, a family of cryptographic hash functions. Includes Skein-MAC as well.

elocrypt - Generate easy-to-remember, hard-to-guess passwords

crypto-random-effect - haskell library providing a random and securemem effect for extensible effects

crypto-pubkey - DEPRECATED - use cryptonite - Cryptographic public key related algorithms in haskell (RSA,DSA,DH,ElGamal)

intel-aes - Haskell package for efficient AES encryption, including Intel AES NI support

cryptoconditions - Interledger Crypto-Conditions in Haskell

pvss

ripple - Implementation of Ripple client protocol in Haskell