zenroom_minimal

A minimal Lua VM binding with default crypto / encoding modules and a builtin human readable DSL for building scenario specific execution environments.

Motivation

zenroom_minimal is an offshoot from the DECODEproject's Zenroom. When evaluating Zenroom, we found that although the security and cryptographic capabilities were very flexible, the performance of the VM did not meet our standards for high-performance / high-throughput. In addition we needed flexible support for scenario logic to run in various secure environments, thus zenroom_minimal was born, using Rust as a module building tool instead of Zenroom's C libraries.

Usage

Although Zenroom's libraries can be used directly with an rlua Lua environment. It is recommended that you use one of zenroom_minimal's Runtime Environments for Code execution to harness the full power and security of the VM

Default Runtime

The defualt runtime provides a Sandboxed Lua environment. This Lua environment prevents the use of OS commands (like Time / File System / etc) and provides instead an import function for whitelisted modules.

let res = DefaultRuntime::default()
    .load("return 'Hello, world!'")?
    .eval()?;

Zenroom Runtime

The Zenroom Runtime leverages Zencode to execute Human Readable protected code through loaded scenarios. Take a look at the examples for more information on how to use