On 05/05/14 02:45 PM, Richo Healey wrote: > On May 5, 2014 at 11:42:19 AM, John Mija ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: >> I like the project clearcrypt and it is awesome that developers start to >> build different algorithms than standard ones. >> >> But it's also necessary to have the most used algorithms, like i.e.: >> >> aes >> rsa >> des >> hmac >> md5 >> rsa >> sha1, sha256, sha512 >> >> As reference, the Go team added some basic algorithms to the standard >> library: http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/ >> > > IMHO, for the time being at least, it makes sense to treat clearcrypt as > a research project- Rust is still unreleased and not “production ready” > in any formal sense of the word, and plays nicely with things that > already use $major_ABI_for_your_platform. As a result, rust has a > no-worse implementation of all the current primitives. > > Don’t get me wrong- I see enormous value in safe, provably correct > implementations of the primitives in common use today, but until the > language and it’s platform are ready for the main stage I’m not sure > that it makes sense to limit the scope of work. > > richo
Rust is only not production ready in the sense that most people would not tolerate the frequent backwards incompatible changes for a production use case. It's not yet completely sound but it's certainly more sound than C or C++.
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