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suppose I want a Rust library for cryptography (the usual stuff: encryption and signing with public, private and symmetric keys), and I want something at least as high-level as libsodium. what can I pick that's not gonna make cryptography experts yell at me. there seem to be too many libraries that try to fill this niche
is dryoc any good. there are too many Rust libraries that try to be “libsodium in Rust” so even that criterion doesn't help me much in narrowing things down
@hikari noise-protocol.org might fit your bill
@hikari I can’t speak to dryoc but ring (https://github.com/briansmith/ring) has a pretty good reputation and is used as a backend for a lot of other libraries (e.g. rustls uses it).
The API is quite different from libsodium (with the hopes of making it as foolproof as possible) so it’s a little difficult to make a comparison, but on the whole I’d say they work at a similar-ish level of abstraction.
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@hikari@social.noyu.me rustcrypto ecosystem i suppose? the high level stuff is in https://github.com/RustCrypto/nacl-compat i wish it was better advertised and everything and not just called "compat"