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# crypto
A cryptography library for the Odin language.
## Supported
This package offers various algorithms implemented in Odin, along with
useful helpers such as access to the system entropy source, and a
constant-time byte comparison.
## Implementation considerations
- The crypto packages are not thread-safe.
- Best-effort is make to mitigate timing side-channels on reasonable
architectures. Architectures that are known to be unreasonable include
but are not limited to i386, i486, and WebAssembly.
- Implementations assume a 64-bit architecture (64-bit integer arithmetic
is fast, and includes add-with-carry, sub-with-borrow, and full-result
multiply).
- Hardware sidechannels are explicitly out of scope for this package.
Notable examples include but are not limited to:
- Power/RF side-channels etc.
- Fault injection attacks etc.
- Hardware vulnerabilities ("apply mitigations or buy a new CPU").
- The packages attempt to santize sensitive data, however this is, and
will remain a "best-effort" implementation decision. As Thomas Pornin
puts it "In general, such memory cleansing is a fool's quest."
- All of these packages have not received independent third party review.
## License
This library is made available under the zlib license.
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