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Top Rust Cryptography repositories on GitHub

Crypto primitives, protocols, and zero-knowledge tooling. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Rust.

Ranked by stars across 252 Rust repositories tagged cryptography. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    bee-san/Ciphey21,375 · ⑂ 1,437

    ⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

    • decryption
    • natural-language-processing
    • cryptography
    • cipher
    • artificial-intelligence
    • ctf-tools
  2. 2
    rustls/rustls7,384 · ⑂ 822

    A modern TLS library in Rust

    • tls
    • cryptography
    • rust
    • ssl
  3. 3
    mimblewimble/grin5,087 · ⑂ 981

    Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.

    • mimblewimble
    • rust
    • cryptocurrency
    • cryptography
    • zero-knowledge-proofs
    • grin
  4. 4
    ProvableHQ/snarkOS4,526 · ⑂ 2,683

    A Decentralized Operating System for ZK Applications

    • aleo
    • blockchain
    • cryptography
    • zero-knowledge
    • zksnarks
    • rust
  5. 5
    freenet/freenet-core2,701 · ⑂ 132

    Declare your digital independence

    • cryptography
    • decentralized
    • distributed-hash-table
    • freenet
    • p2p
    • privacy
  6. 6
    nexus-xyz/nexus-zkvm2,602 · ⑂ 543

    The Nexus zkVM: The zero-knowledge virtual machine

    • cryptography
    • nexus
    • rust
    • snark
    • zero-knowledge
    • zkvm
  7. 7
    cryfs/cryfs2,254 · ⑂ 171

    Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud

    • cryfs
    • osxfuse
    • filesystem
    • crypto
    • cloud
    • encryption
  8. 8
    RustCrypto/hashes2,213 · ⑂ 317

    Collection of cryptographic hash functions written in pure Rust

    • cryptographic-hash-functions
    • blake2
    • gost
    • streebog
    • groestl
    • md2
  9. 9
    zama-ai/tfhe-rs1,601 · ⑂ 322

    TFHE-rs: A Pure Rust implementation of the TFHE Scheme for Boolean and Integer Arithmetics Over Encrypted Data.

    • cryptography
    • homomorphic-encryption
    • rust
    • tfhe
  10. 10
    buckyos/CYFS1,437 · ⑂ 201

    CYFS is the next-generation technology to build real Web3 by upgrading the basic protocol of Web (TCP/IP+DNS+HTTP),is short for CYberFileSystem. https://www.cyfs.com/, cyfs://cyfs/index_en.html.

    • blockchain
    • cryptography
    • named-data-networking
    • p2p
    • rust
    • web3
  11. 11
    rosenpass/rosenpass1,343 · ⑂ 124

    Rosenpass is a post-quantum-secure VPN that uses WireGuard to transport the actual data.

    • cryptography
    • post-quantum
    • rust
    • vpn
    • wireguard
  12. 12
    aws/s2n-quic1,343 · ⑂ 161

    An implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol

    • quic
    • rust
    • cryptography
    • s2n
  13. 13
    noir-lang/noir1,341 · ⑂ 389

    Noir is a domain specific language for zero knowledge proofs

    • cryptography
    • zero-knowledge
    • compiler
    • noir-lang
    • programming-language
  14. 14
    exonum/exonum1,242 · ⑂ 245

    An extensible open-source framework for creating private/permissioned blockchain applications

    • blockchain
    • rust
    • cryptography
    • bitcoin
    • p2p
    • consensus-algorithm
  15. 15
    zkonduit/ezkl1,196 · ⑂ 202

    ezkl is an engine for doing inference for deep learning models and other computational graphs in a zk-snark (ZKML). Use it from Python, Javascript, or the command line.

    • ai
    • cryptography
    • zero-knowledge
    • zkml
  16. 16

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

    • cryptography
    • elliptic-curves
    • curve25519
    • ristretto
    • montgomery
    • edwards-curve
  17. 17
    ProvableHQ/snarkVM1,154 · ⑂ 1,548

    A zkVM for Decentralized Private Computations (DPC)

    • rust
    • cryptography
    • blockchain
    • zero-knowledge
    • zkp
    • aleo
  18. 18
    nexus-xyz/nexus-cli1,130 · ⑂ 664

    Command line interface for supplying proofs to the Nexus network.

    • cryptography
    • network
    • rust
  19. 19
    swanandx/lemmeknow1,104 · ⑂ 43

    The fastest way to identify anything!

    • rust
    • rust-lang
    • rust-crate
    • cybersecurity
    • cli
    • cryptography
  20. 20
    ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa1,082 · ⑂ 333

    Rust implementation of {t,n}-threshold ECDSA (elliptic curve digital signature algorithm).

    • ecdsa
    • multi-party-ecdsa
    • signature
    • rust
    • secret-shares
    • blockchain
  21. 21
    google/mundane1,081 · ⑂ 42

    Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL that is difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant (in that order).

    • cryptography
    • rust
    • boringssl
  22. 22
    mcginty/snow1,064 · ⑂ 133

    A Rust implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework

    • cryptography
    • crypto
    • noise-protocol-framework
    • noise-protocol
    • noise
    • rust
  23. 23
    rpgp/rpgp1,022 · ⑂ 102

    OpenPGP implemented in pure Rust, permissively licensed

    • rust
    • pgp
    • cryptography
    • openpgp
  24. 24
    ogxd/gxhash1,005 · ⑂ 37

    Unsafely fast hashing algorithm 📈

    • cryptography
    • hash
    • hashing
    • hashmap
    • ilp
    • no-std
  25. 25
    a16z/jolt987 · ⑂ 310

    The simplest and most extensible zkVM. Fast and fully open source from a16z crypto and friends. ⚡

    • arkworks
    • cryptography
    • snark
    • zk
    • zk-snarks
    • zkp

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