Downloadcppcrypto provides optimized implementations of cryptographic primitives.
Hash functions: BLAKE, BLAKE2, Echo, Esch, Groestl, JH, Kupyna, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, SHAKE, Skein, SM3, Streebog, Whirlpool.
Block ciphers: Anubis, Aria, Camellia, CAST-256, Kalyna, Kuznyechik, Mars, Serpent, Simon, SM4, Speck, Threefish, Twofish, and Rijndael (AES) with all block/key sizes.
Stream ciphers: HC-128, HC-256, Salsa20, XSalsa20, ChaCha, XChaCha.
Encryption modes: CBC, CTR.
AEAD modes: Encrypt-then-MAC (EtM), GCM, OCB, ChaCha-Poly1305, Schwaemm.
Streaming AEAD.
MAC functions: HMAC, Poly1305.
Key derivation functions: PBKDF2, scrypt, Argon2, HKDF.
Includes sample command-line tools:
- 'digest' - for calculating and verifying file checksum(s) using any of the supported hash algorithms (similar to md5sum or RHash).
- 'cryptor' - for file encryption using Serpent-256 algorithm in AEAD mode.
Check out the cppcrypto web site linked below for programming documentation.
Features
- Simple self-explanatory programming interface.
- Hash functions: BLAKE, BLAKE2, Echo, Esch, Grøstl, JH, Kupyna, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, SHAKE, Skein, SM3, Streebog, Whirlpool.
- Block ciphers: Rijndael (AES), Anubis, Aria, Camellia, CAST-256, Kalyna, Kuznyechik, Mars, Serpent, Simon-128, SM4, Speck-128, Threefish, Twofish.
- Stream ciphers: HC-128, HC-256, Salsa20/20, Salsa20/12, XSalsa20/20, XSalsa20/12, ChaCha20, ChaCha12, XChaCha20, XChaCha12.
- Encryption modes: CBC, CTR.
- AEAD modes: Encrypt-then-MAC, GCM, OCB, ChaCha-Poly1305, Schwaemm.
- Streaming authenticated encryption with associated data (Streaming AEAD).
- MAC functions: HMAC, Poly1305.
- Key derivation functions: PBKDF2, scrypt, Argon2i/Argon2d/Argon2id, HKDF
- Tested compilers: Visual C++ 2017, Visual C++ 2019, Visual C++ 2022, gcc 12.2.1, clang 13.0.0, clang 15.0.7.
- Tested operating systems: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris
- Includes portable implementations and optimized implementations (using SSE/AVX/etc) for modern CPUs.
- The fastest implementation is selected dynamically at runtime depending on CPU features.
- The only publicly-available implementation of AES-NI acceleration for all 25 Rijndael variants (not only for 3 AES variants).
- The only publicly-available performance-optimized implementation of Kupyna hash function (Ukrainian national standard DSTU 7564:2014).
- The first publicly-available performance-optimized implementation of Kalyna block cipher (Ukrainian national standard DSTU 7624:2014).
- One of the first independent implementations of Argon2 password hashing function.
- Support for Salsa20 and ChaCha variants with 192-bit nonce (XSalsa20/XChaCha).
- Includes command-line digest utility for calculating file checksums (hashes) and demonstrating library usage.
- Includes command-line cryptor utility for authenticated file enryption using Serpent-256 and demonstrating library usage.
- Documentation is available at http://cppcrypto.sourceforge.net/
License
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User Reviews
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Very fast library. I was looking for a C library to replace PHP's mcrypt. Using my crude benchmark on Rijndael 256, cppcrypto is about 60x faster than mcrypt.