strobe-rs

This is a relatively barebones implementation of the Strobe protocol framework in pure Rust. It is intended to be used as a library to build other protocols and frameworks. This implementation currently only supports Keccak-f[1600] as the internal permutation function, which is the largest possible block size, so big deal.

Example

A simple program that encrypts and decrypts a message:

use strobe_rs::{SecParam, Strobe};

fn main() {
    let mut rx = Strobe::new(b"correctnesstest", SecParam::B256);
    let mut tx = Strobe::new(b"correctnesstest", SecParam::B256);

    rx.key(b"the-combination-on-my-luggage", false);
    tx.key(b"the-combination-on-my-luggage", false);

    let mut msg = b"Attack at dawn".to_vec();
    rx.send_enc(msg.as_mut_slice(), false);

    // Rename for clarity. `msg` has been encrypted in-place.
    let mut ciphertext = msg;

    tx.recv_enc(ciphertext.as_mut_slice(), false);

    // And back again.
    let round_trip_msg = ciphertext;

    assert_eq!(&round_trip_msg, b"Attack at dawn");
}

Features

This crate does support no_std. However, the std feature is enabled by default.
A nightly feature is also supported and disabled by default. This currently just forwards to subtle's nightly feature.

For info on how to omit or include feature flags, see the cargo docs on features.

Tests

To run tests, execute cargo test. This includes known-answer tests, which test against JSON-encoded test vectors in the kat/ directory. To verify these test vectors against the reference Python implementation, cd into kat/, run python2 kat/verify_test_vector.py and follow the included instructions.

Benchmarks

Since benchmarks are still not stable, run cargo +nightly bench.

TODO

Get code coverage information
Contribute an asm impelmentation of Keccak-f[1600] to tiny-keccak and expose a feature flag that lets strobe-rs users choose which implementation they prefer.
Put more asserts in the code like the Python implementation does. Not sure if this is a great idea though

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT)

at your option.

Warning

This code has not been audited in any sense of the word. Use at your own discretion.

strobe-rs 0.5.0