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Version: Zig 0.14.0 (dev)

Crypto

std.crypto includes many cryptographic utilities, including:

  • AES (Aes128, Aes256)
  • Diffie-Hellman key exchange (x25519)
  • Elliptic-curve arithmetic (curve25519, edwards25519, ristretto255)
  • Crypto secure hashing (blake2, Blake3, Gimli, Md5, sha1, sha2, sha3)
  • MAC functions (Ghash, Poly1305)
  • Stream ciphers (ChaCha20IETF, ChaCha20With64BitNonce, XChaCha20IETF, Salsa20, XSalsa20)

This list is inexhaustive. For more in-depth information, try A tour of std.crypto in Zig 0.7.0 - Frank Denis.