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#1032 in Cryptography
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A Boring(SSL)-compatible API abstraction for Rust cryptographic implementations.
What is Superboring?
Superboring hides the complexity, diversity and instability of cryptographic implementations written in Rust behind an emulation of the boring
API (Rust excellent wrappers for BoringSSL).
This allows application written using the boring
API to be able to also use pure Rust implementations without having to maintain two code bases.
Why use emulation instead of always using boring
?
Here are valid reasons why using boring
may sometimes not be an option.
All of them are just features that haven't been implemented in the boring
crate yet, and that the boring
maintainers would probably love getting help with, rather than people finding workarounds.
WebAssembly
While BoringSSL itself can be compiled to WebAssembly, the boring
crate currently doesn't support this.
Static builds
The boring
crate (actually boring-sys
) currently doesn't have the ability to create static builds.
Even though by default, musl makes Rust code slow, pure Rust code generally supports static builds out of the box.
Symbol collisions with OpenSSL
OpenSSL and BoringSSL share a lot of symbols, which can cause collisions.
BoringSSL has the ability to prefix symbols in order to avoid this. But the boring
crate currently doesn't support this.
What is currently implemented?
Superboring currently implements pretty much everything required to handle RSA signatures.
Dependencies
~0–1MB
~18K SLoC