Cryptography is considered to be one of the best application of rust. So I was wondering what cryptography crates people usually use. I see many crates that are abandoned, and other discussions I found on this topic are 2+ years old.

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    aws-lc-rs is probably the most popular but also quite annoying because it uses C, so cross-compiling is a bit of a pain. I only managed to do it thanks to cargo zigbuild which is amazing. (And kind of embarrassing that Rust has to use Zig to get a nice cross-compiling UX, but hey it works.)

    The other one is ring, which I’m not really sure the status of but I recall they had some super weird versioning policies that weren’t very popular.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      I only managed to do it thanks to cargo zigbuild which is amazing. (And kind of embarrassing that Rust has to use Zig to get a nice cross-compiling UX, but hey it works.)

      As in cross didn’t work for this?

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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        5 days ago

        cross requires Docker which is a really awkward dependency, especially on Windows and Mac, or if you’re already in Docker, e.g. in CI or a dev container.

        Plus it’s quite slow. Cargo zigbuild was a much nicer solution when I finally resorted to it. Zig is easy to install, even on Debian - just download and untar.