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Introduction to ZIO Crypto

Fast, secure cryptographic primitives in a ZIO & ZIO Streams friendly package. ZIO Crypto is a ZIO-idiomatic wrapper over Java's basic cryptographic functions. It provides hashing, secure random generation, and HMAC signatures and verifications.

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Project Goals​

Cryptographic Implementations and Dependencies​

We wish to have as few dependencies as possible this project. So, when cryptographic primitives are available via Java built-ins, we opt to use them.

However, more than not having dependencies, we do not want to offer implementations of any cryptographic primitives. So, when a new primitive is required and not available via a Java built-in, we use a package. Services using these new packages should be added under new zio.crypto Maven packages.

NIST-Recommendations and Correctness​

We wish to offer the best-practice algorithms according to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

One common form of error in security is using a non-recommended algorithm with the correct interface. In an effort to keep our library easy-to-use, we try to limit the number of algorithms offered to NIST-recommended algorithms and limit less well-known and less well-used algorithms.

Installation​

libraryDependencies += "dev.zio" %% "zio-crypto" % "0.0.0+120-8d0af0b1-SNAPSHOT"