SymCrypt Rust Wrapper

This crate provides friendly and idiomatic Rust wrappers over SymCrypt, an open-source cryptographic library.

This crate has a dependency on symcrypt-sys, which utilizes bindgen to create Rust/C FFI bindings.

symcrypt version 0.4.0 is based off of SymCrypt v103.4.2.. You must use a version that is greater than or equal to SymCrypt v103.4.2.

To view a detailed list of changes please see the releases page.

Supported Configurations

Supported APIs

Hashing:

• Md5 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha1 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha256 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha384 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha512 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha3_256 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha3_384 ( stateful/stateless )
• Sha3_512 ( stateful/stateless )

HMAC:

• HmacMd5 ( stateful/stateless )
• HmacSha1 ( stateful/stateless )
• HmacSha256 ( stateful/stateless )
• HmacSha384 ( stateful/stateless )
• HmacSha512 ( stateful/stateless )

GCM:

• Encryption ( in place )
• Decryption ( in place )

ChaCha:

• Encryption ( in place )
• Decryption ( in place )

ECC:

• ECDH Secret Agreement ( NistP256, NistP384, NistP521, Curve25519)
• ECDSA Sign / Verify ( NistP256, NistP384 )

RSA:

• PKCS1 ( Sign, Verify, Encrypt, Decrypt )
• PSS ( Sign, Verify )
• OAEP ( Encrypt, Decrypt )

Note: Md5 and Sha1, and PKCS1 Encrypt/Decrypt are considered weak crypto, and are only added for interop purposes. To enable either Md5 or Sha1, or Pkcs1 Encrypt/Decrypt pass the md5 or sha1 or pkcs1-encrypt-decrypt flag into your Cargo.toml.

Quick Start Guide

symcrypt requires the SymCrypt library to be present at both build time and run time.

Windows:

Download the latest symcrypt.dll and symcrypt.lib for your corresponding CPU architecture from the SymCrypt Releases Page and place them somewhere accessible on your machine.

Set the required SYMCRYPT_LIB_PATH environment variable. You can do this by using the following command:

setx SYMCRYPT_LIB_PATH "<your-path-to-symcrypt-lib-folder>"

You will need to restart terminal / cmd after setting the environment variable.

For more information please see the INSTALL.md file on the rust-symcrypt page.

Linux:

Azure Linux 3:

SymCrypt is pre-installed on Azure Linux 3 machines. Please ensure that you have the most up to date version of SymCrypt by updating via tdnf.

Other distros:

For Ubuntu, you can install SymCrypt via package manager by connecting to PMC.

1. Connect to PMC
2. sudo apt-get install symcrypt

Alternatively, you can manually install the lib files:

Download the latest libsymcrypt.so* files for your corresponding CPU architecture from the SymCrypt Releases Page and place them in your machines $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

For more information please see the INSTALL.md file on the rust-symcrypt page

Note: This path may be different depending on your flavour of Linux, and architecture. The goal is to place the libsymcrypt.so* files in a location where the your Linux distro can find the required libs at build/run time.

Usage

There are unit tests attached to each file that show how to use each function. Included is some sample code to do a stateless Sha256 hash.

Note: This code snippet also uses the hex crate.

Instructions:

add symcrypt to your Cargo.toml file.

[dependencies]
symcrypt = "0.4.0"
hex = "0.4.3"

include symcrypt in your code

use symcrypt::hash::sha256; 
use hex;
fn main() {
    let data = hex::decode("641ec2cf711e").unwrap();
    let expected: &str = "cfdbd6c9acf9842ce04e8e6a0421838f858559cf22d2ea8a38bd07d5e4692233";

    let result = sha256(&data);
    assert_eq!(hex::encode(result), expected);
}