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i2p_snow

A pure-rust implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework, with I2P Noise extensions

3 releases (breaking)

Uses old Rust 2015

0.5.1 Feb 14, 2019
0.4.0 Oct 10, 2018
0.3.1 Aug 23, 2018

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Snow (with I2P Noise extensions)

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An implementation of Trevor Perrin's Noise Protocol that is designed to be Hard To Fuck Up™.

This codebase contains additional Noise extensions used by I2P for the NTCP2 protocol. Look here for the unmodified crate.

🔥 Warning 🔥 This library has not received any formal audit.

What's it look like?

See examples/simple.rs for a more complete TCP client/server example.

let mut noise = i2p_snow::Builder::new("Noise_NN_25519_ChaChaPoly_BLAKE2s".parse()?)
                    .build_initiator()?;
 
let mut buf = [0u8; 65535];
 
// write first handshake message
noise.write_message(&[], &mut buf)?;
 
// receive response message
let incoming = receive_message_from_the_mysterious_ether();
noise.read_message(&incoming, &mut buf)?;
 
// complete handshake, and transition the state machine into transport mode
let mut noise = noise.into_transport_mode()?;

See the full documentation at https://docs.rs/i2p_snow.

Implemented

Snow is currently tracking against Noise spec revision 34.

However, a not all features have been implemented yet (pull requests welcome):

Crypto

Cryptographic providers are swappable through Builder::with_resolver(), but by default it chooses select, artisanal pure-Rust implementations (see Cargo.toml for a quick overview).

Providers

ring

ring is a crypto library based off of BoringSSL and is significantly faster than most of the pure-Rust implementations.

If you enable the ring-resolver feature, Snow will include a ring_wrapper module as well as a RingAcceleratedResolver available to be used with Builder::with_resolver().

If you enable the ring-accelerated feature, Snow will default to choosing ring's crypto implementations when available.

HACL*

HACL* is a formally verified cryptographic library, accessed via the rust-hacl-star wrapper crate.

If you enable the hacl-resolver feature, Snow will include a hacl_wrapper module as well as a HaclStarResolver available to be used with Builder::with_resolver().

Similar to ring, if you enable the hacl-accelerated feature, Snow will default to choosing HACL* implementations when available.

Resolver primitives supported

default ring hacl*
CSPRNG
25519
448
AESGCM
ChaChaPoly
SHA256
SHA512
BLAKE2s
BLAKE2b

Dependencies

~1.7–5MB
~115K SLoC