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wolfssl/wrapper/rust/wolfssl-wolfcrypt
Josh Holtrop 54cb1d8d38 Rust wrapper: ensure memory safety for C RNG struct
- store pointer to WC_RNG instead of full struct
- enforce RNG is not dropped before consumer structs

The C library stores a pointer via the set_rng() methods on a few
structs (e.g. RSA). This change holds a reference (or instance) of RNG
within the consumer structs to ensure it is kept alive if set_rng (or
now set_shared_rng) is used.
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wolfssl-wolfcrypt crate

The wolfssl-wolfcrypt crate is a Rust wrapper for the wolfCrypt cryptographic algorithms portion of the wolfSSL C library.

Installation

The wolfssl C library must be installed to be used by the Rust crate.

The wolfssl-wolfcrypt crate can be used by including it as a dependency in your project's Cargo.toml file.

For example:

[dependencies]
wolfssl-wolfcrypt = "1.0"

API Coverage

This crate provides a wrapper API for the following wolfCrypt C library functionality:

  • AES
    • CBC, CCM, CFB, CTR, EAX, ECB, GCM, OFB, XTS
  • BLAKE2
  • CMAC
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305
  • Curve25519
  • DH
  • ECC
  • Ed25519
  • Ed448
  • HKDF
  • HMAC
  • LMS
  • ML-DSA
  • ML-KEM
  • PBKDF2
  • PKCS #12 PBKDF
  • PRF
  • RNG
  • RSA
  • SHA
    • SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, SHAKE128, SHAKE256
  • SRTP/SRTCP KDF
  • SSH KDF
  • TLSv1.3 HKDF

Build Notes

WOLFSSL_PREFIX

If the wolfSSL C library is not installed in a default location, you can specify the installation prefix with the WOLFSSL_PREFIX environment variable when building the wolfssl-wolfcrypt crate.

For example:

WOLFSSL_PREFIX=/opt/my-wolfssl-build cargo build

Cross-Compiling

Ensure that the target you want to build for is installed for Rust. For example:

rustup target add riscv64imac-unknown-none-elf

Build with the --target option if building manually:

export WOLFSSL_PREFIX=/opt/wolfssl-riscv64
cargo build --target riscv64imac-unknown-none-elf

To specify the linker for the target:

export CARGO_TARGET_RISCV64IMAC_UNKNOWN_NONE_ELF_LINKER=riscv64-elf-gcc