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Submissions: Tiny AES

Open Photosounder opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Two-file public domain AES encryption/decryption in C https://github.com/kokke/tiny-AES-c

Photosounder avatar Oct 19 '18 04:10 Photosounder

Crypto is one of those things you don't want to do yourself except as a learning experience. This is mildly dangerous. Does the author have a strong background in cryptography?

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:49 AM Photosounder [email protected] wrote:

Two file public domain AES encryption/decryption in C https://github.com/kokke/tiny-AES-c

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HSchmale16 avatar Oct 21 '18 14:10 HSchmale16

Good point which I hadn't considered, however it could still be good for low security applications like decoding a public stream. I found out about Tiny AES from hlsdl which uses Tiny AES to decode streams, perhaps that's why I never thought of security as a problem in such a situation. So this couldn't replace a well security-tested implementation and you wouldn't want to put it in a server, but other than that it could probably be suitable for many things. Either way it definitely suits the philosophy and format of this catalogue of tiny libraries.

Photosounder avatar Oct 21 '18 14:10 Photosounder