Module sequoia_openpgp::crypto

Cryptographic primitives.

This module contains cryptographic primitives as defined and used by OpenPGP. It abstracts over the cryptographic library chosen at compile time. Most of the time, it will not be necessary to explicitly use types from this module directly, but they are used in the API (e.g. Password). Advanced users may use these primitives to provide custom extensions to OpenPGP.

Common Operations

• Converting a string to a Password: Use Password::from.
• Create a session key: Use SessionKey::new.
• Use secret keys: See the KeyPair example.

Modules

• ecdh
  Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman.
• hash
  Cryptographic hash functions and hashing of OpenPGP data structures.
• mem
  Memory protection and encryption.
• mpi
  Multiprecision Integers.

Structs

• KeyPair
  A cryptographic key pair.
• Password
  Holds a password.
• SessionKey
  Holds a session key.

Enums

• S2K
  String-to-Key (S2K) specifiers.

Traits

• Decryptor
  Decrypts a message.
• Signer
  Creates a signature.

Functions

• backend
  Returns a short, human-readable description of the backend.
• random
  Fills the given buffer with random data.