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dalek-cryptography
curve25519-dalek
Rust2023–2026
dalek-cryptography / curve25519-dalek

curve25519-dalek

A pure-Rust implementation of group operations on Ristretto and Curve25519

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1.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

A pure-Rust implementation of group operations on Ristretto and Curve25519

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-01-17 11:58:24 UTC to 2026-02-19 21:31:45 UTC.

012023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Thanks for the feedback. This is why I built it FOSS. On the libraries: Mini Diarium actually does use established, widely audited crates rather than rolling its own primitives. See https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs for AES-256-GCM, https://github.com/RustCrypto/password-hashes for key derivation, and https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek + https://github.com/RustCrypto/KDFs for the key file ECIES scheme. The thin cipher.rs wrapper just handles nonce prepending with no custom crypto primitives. On key reuse: the master key is intentionally shared across entries (as in Signal, 1Password, etc.), but each encrypt() call generates a fresh 96-bit nonce from the OS CSPRNG, so the (key, nonce) pair is never repeated. That said, I am not a security expert by any means. If you've spotted something concrete, a specific call site,
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a protocol flaw, or a library you'd swap in, I'd genuinely love to hear it. Open to PRs or a discussion issue. Regards
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