RustCrypto/traits

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Collection of cryptography-related traits

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Forks: 256
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 41
Avg merge: 1h 27m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: Rust
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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41 open issues indexed

try_sign_digest() is confusing. Open

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RustCrypto/traits#2487 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
kem: `from_seed` and `generate_keypair` use unnecessary memory Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RustCrypto/traits#2482 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Proposal: a multi-buffer (multi-message) hashing trait for parallel independent digests Open

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RustCrypto/traits#2478 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
cipher: tracking issue for v0.6 Open

cipher

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RustCrypto/traits#2424 · Opened May 20, 2026
`signature` v4 tracking issue Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#2401 · Opened May 2, 2026
`digest::Update`, `FixedOutput`, and `Mac` are infallible; hardware backends are forced to panic when operations fail Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#2366 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 5, 2026
Replace `subtle` with `ctutils`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#2275 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026
crypto-common: potential future of `KeyIvInit` for `T: InnerInit` where `T::Inner: KeyIvInit` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#2271 · Opened Feb 3, 2026
cipher: replace `StreamCipherCoreWrapper` with a buffering macro? Open

cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

RustCrypto/traits#2047 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 22, 2025
Implement `Zeroize` for `NonIdentity<AffinePoint>` Open

elliptic-curve

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#2022 · Opened Sep 27, 2025
aead: add support for `heapless` v0.9 Open

aead

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#2000 · Opened Sep 5, 2025
elliptic-curve: fields with lazy reduction Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

RustCrypto/traits#1997 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Does `elliptic-curve` with only the `serde` feature enabled still require `alloc`? Open

elliptic-curve

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#1960 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2025
Handling of algorithms which support variable key sizes Open

aead cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1952 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Use macros for boilerplate documentation? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

RustCrypto/traits#1942 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2025
elliptic-curve: Use a single `Point` type instead of `AffinePoint` and `ProjectivePoint` Open

elliptic-curve

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#1900 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2025
VRF traits Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1728 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2025
aead: marker trait + simpler encryption API for randomized nonces Open

aead

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

RustCrypto/traits#1666 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2024
Facade crate development Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#1633 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2024
Use `diagnostic::on_unimplemented` to improve blanket impl debugging Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1563 · 3 comments · Opened May 3, 2024
TLS Traits Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1562 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 28, 2024
Tracking issue for migrating from `hybrid-array` to const generic core arrays Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1481 · 10 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2024
aead: incremental encryption API Open

aead

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1364 · 16 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 23, 2023
add trait for length-preserving encryption Open

cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1332 · Opened Jul 3, 2023
aead: API with separate buffers for input and output Open

aead

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

RustCrypto/traits#1311 · 11 comments · Opened May 19, 2023
elliptic-curve: support scalar modulus larger than base field size Open

elliptic-curve

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#1304 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2023
digest: improve documentation and test examples in readme Open

digest

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#1110 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2022
Support one pass re-encryption? Open

aead cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#824 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 30, 2021
Making sure SecretKey is zeroized on drop Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

RustCrypto/traits#671 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2021
hex-literal instead of blobby? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#642 · 3 comments · Opened May 26, 2021
Improving cipher parallelism Open

cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#444 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2020
aead: expose "hazmat" operations and partial tag methods on top of them? Open

aead question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

RustCrypto/traits#347 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2020
Async traits Open

cipher signature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#304 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2020
universal-hash: parallel block processing Open

univeral-hash

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

RustCrypto/traits#289 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2020
Authenticated encryption (without AAD) Open

aead

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#261 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2020
Add usage examples Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

RustCrypto/traits#258 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2020
1.0 releases Open

aead cipher crypto-mac digest elliptic-curve enhancement help wanted signature univeral-hash

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#238 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2020
cipher: Block alignment Open

cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#159 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2020
signature: tracking issue for `rand_core` (RandomizedSigner) stabilization Open

signature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#94 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2020
signature: tracking issue for `digest` stabilization (DigestSigner, DigestVerifier, and DigestSignature) Open

signature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

RustCrypto/traits#92 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2020
aead: generalization of AEADs based on stream ciphers Open

aead cipher

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

RustCrypto/traits#45 · 14 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2019

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