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List of single-file C/C++ libraries.
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Submissions: Tiny AES #134

Open Photosounder opened 5 years ago

Photosounder commented 5 years ago

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

HSchmale16 commented 5 years ago

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?

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

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Photosounder commented 5 years ago

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.