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RUSTSEC-2016-0005
No affected components available
The rust-crypto crate has not seen a release or GitHub commit since 2016,
and its author is unresponsive.
NOTE: The (old) rust-crypto crate (with hyphen) should not be confused with
similarly named (new) RustCrypto GitHub Org (without hyphen). The GitHub Org
is actively maintained.
We recommend you switch to one of the following crates instead, depending on which algorithms you need:
- dalek-cryptography GitHub Org:
- Key agreement:
x25519-dalek - Signature algorithms:
ed25519-dalek
- Key agreement:
ring:- AEAD algorithms: AES-GCM, ChaCha20Poly1305
- Digest algorithms: SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/256 (legacy: SHA-1)
- HMAC
- Key agreement: ECDH (P-256, P-384), X25519
- Key derivation: HKDF
- Password hashing: PBKDF2
- Signature algorithms: ECDSA (P-256, P-384), Ed25519, RSA (PKCS#1v1.5, PSS)
- RustCrypto GitHub Org:
- AEAD algorithms:
aes-gcm,aes-gcm-siv,aes-siv,chacha20poly1305,xsalsa20poly1305 - Block ciphers:
aes,cast5,des - Digest algorithms:
sha2,sha3,blake2,ripemd160(legacy:sha-1, [md-5]) - Key derivation:
hkdf - MACs:
cmac,hmac,pmac,poly1305 - Password hashing:
pbkdf2 - Stream ciphers:
aes-ctr,chacha20,hc-256,salsa20
- AEAD algorithms:
secp256k1:- Key agreement: ECDH (secp256k1 only)
- Signature algorithms: ECDSA (secp256k1 only)
orion:- AEAD algorithms: ChaCha20Poly1305 (IETF version), XChaCha20Poly1305
- Digest algorithms: SHA-512, BLAKE2b
- Key derivation: HKDF
- MACs: HMAC, Poly1305
- Password hashing: PBKDF2
- Stream ciphers: ChaCha20 (IETF version), XChaCha20
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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