slow-libs/README.md

slow-libs single-header libraries

MIT licennced (see ./LICENSE)

Most libraries are not actually slow, but that is just the naming scheme.

Each library is documentated at the top of each header file

Features of all libraries

• C89 (or later) compatible
• intuitive to use
• don't pollude namespace
• configurable with pre-processor macros

Libraries

• ./chacha20.h
• ./slowarr.h: C templated dynamic array
• ./slowgraph.h: WIP graph library (this is the only library that is actually slow)

CLI Tools

CLI utils built with slow-libs.

• ./slowgraph/sgraph-adj.c: dgtxt graphs <-> adjacency matrix

Cryptography Security Considerations

All cryptography libraries list possible side channel attacks in their documentation

Library	Zeroing memory	Timing attacks	Notes
chacha20.h	manual 1	impossible	2

Cryptography 101

• TODO: explain asymetric
• TODO: compare symetrics
• TODO: compare asymetrics
• TODO: compare hashes
• TODO: XOF
• TODO: rng
• TODO: length extension
• TODO: password hashing

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1. the compiler might optimize the zeroing away ↩︎

2. does not prevent against length-extension, by algorithm design. See Cryptography 101. ↩︎