win-crypto-ng

Safe Rust bindings to Microsoft Windows Cryptography API : Next Generation (CNG)

CNG are cryptographic primitives and utilities provided by the operating system and/or hardware. It is available since Windows Vista and replaces the now deprecated CryptoAPI.

The primitives do not depend on OpenSSL or other libraries of the sort, they are provided by Microsoft and/or by the hardware manufacturer. They are the primitives used in kernel space programs. Therefore, if you are using Microsoft Windows, you already accepted to trust these primitives.

CNG Features

• Validated by FIPS 140-2 and part of the Target of Evaluation for the Windows Common Criteria certification
• Full support for NSA Suite B algorithms
• Kernel support (not through the Rust bindings)
• Auditing in the key storage provider (KSP)
• Thread safe

Supported features in Rust

• Asymmetric encryption (RSA)
• Digital signatures
  • Supported algorithms: RSA, DSA, ECDSA.
• Key exchange
  • Supported algorithms: DH, ECDH.
• Symmetric encryption
  • Supported algorithms: AES, DES, DES-X, RC2, 3DES, 3DES-112.
  • Supported chaining modes: ECB, CBC, CFB.
• Hash functions
  • Supported algorithms: SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD2, MD4, MD5.
• Cryptographically secure random number generation

More to come

Cargo features

• zeroize - Uses zeroize crate to zero intermediate buffers on destruction
• rand - Implements rand crate traits for the CNG-provided CSPRNG (cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator)
• block-cipher - Implements block-cipher traits for CNG block ciphers.

By default, only the zeroize feature is enabled.

Examples

Asymmetric encryption (RSA)

use win_crypto_ng::asymmetric::{AsymmetricKey, EncryptionPadding, Rsa};
let key = AsymmetricKey::builder(Rsa).key_bits(1024).build().unwrap();

let plaintext = b"This is an important message.";

let padding = Some(EncryptionPadding::Pkcs1);
let ciphertext = key.encrypt(padding.clone(), &*plaintext).unwrap();
assert_eq!(ciphertext.len(), 1024 / 8);
let decoded = key.decrypt(padding, ciphertext.as_ref()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(plaintext, decoded.as_ref());

Digital signatures

use win_crypto_ng::asymmetric::signature::{Signer, Verifier, SignaturePadding};
use win_crypto_ng::asymmetric::{AsymmetricKey, Rsa};
use win_crypto_ng::hash::HashAlgorithmId;

let key = AsymmetricKey::builder(Rsa).key_bits(1024).build().unwrap();

let data: Vec<u8> = (0..32).collect();
let padding = SignaturePadding::pkcs1(HashAlgorithmId::Sha256);
let signature = key.sign(&*data, Some(padding)).expect("Signing to succeed");

key.verify(&data, &signature, Some(padding)).expect("Signature to be valid");

key.verify(&[0xDE, 0xAD], &signature, Some(padding)).expect_err("Bad digest");
key.verify(&data, &[0xDE, 0xAD], Some(padding)).expect_err("Bad signature");

Symmetric encryption

use win_crypto_ng::symmetric::{ChainingMode, SymmetricAlgorithm, SymmetricAlgorithmId, Padding};

const KEY: &'static str = "0123456789ABCDEF";
const IV: &'static str = "asdfqwerasdfqwer";
const DATA: &'static str = "This is a test.";

let iv = IV.as_bytes().to_vec();

let algo = SymmetricAlgorithm::open(SymmetricAlgorithmId::Aes, ChainingMode::Cbc).unwrap();
let key = algo.new_key(KEY.as_bytes()).unwrap();
let ciphertext = key.encrypt(Some(&mut iv.clone()), DATA.as_bytes(), Some(Padding::Block)).unwrap();
let plaintext = key.decrypt(Some(&mut iv.clone()), ciphertext.as_slice(), Some(Padding::Block)).unwrap();

assert_eq!(std::str::from_utf8(&plaintext.as_slice()[..DATA.len()]).unwrap(), DATA);

Hash functions

use win_crypto_ng::hash::{HashAlgorithm, HashAlgorithmId};

const DATA: &'static str = "This is a test.";

let algo = HashAlgorithm::open(HashAlgorithmId::Sha256).unwrap();
let mut hash = algo.new_hash().unwrap();
hash.hash(DATA.as_bytes()).unwrap();
let result = hash.finish().unwrap();

assert_eq!(result.as_slice(), &[
    0xA8, 0xA2, 0xF6, 0xEB, 0xE2, 0x86, 0x69, 0x7C,
    0x52, 0x7E, 0xB3, 0x5A, 0x58, 0xB5, 0x53, 0x95,
    0x32, 0xE9, 0xB3, 0xAE, 0x3B, 0x64, 0xD4, 0xEB,
    0x0A, 0x46, 0xFB, 0x65, 0x7B, 0x41, 0x56, 0x2C,
]);

Cryptographically secure random number generator

use win_crypto_ng::random::{RandomAlgorithmId, RandomNumberGenerator};

let mut buffer = [0u8; 32];
let rng = RandomNumberGenerator::system_preferred();
rng.gen_random(&mut buffer).unwrap();

assert_ne!(&buffer, &[0u8; 32]);

License

Licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License. See LICENSE.md for more details.

Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Émile Grégoire. All rights reserved.