Poly1305

Poly1305 is a universal hash function which, when combined with a cipher, can be used as a Message Authentication Code (MAC).

In practice, Poly1305 is primarily combined with ciphers from the Salsa20 Family such as in ChaCha20Poly1305 and XSalsa20Poly1305 (a.k.a. NaCl crypto_secretbox).

Documentation

Security Warning

No security audits of this crate have ever been performed, and it has not been thoroughly assessed to ensure its operation is constant-time on common CPU architectures.

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License

Licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• MIT license

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