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.
- 1bee-san/Ciphey★ 21,375 · ⑂ 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
- 3mimblewimble/grin★ 5,087 · ⑂ 981
Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
- mimblewimble
- rust
- cryptocurrency
- cryptography
- zero-knowledge-proofs
- grin
- 4ProvableHQ/snarkOS★ 4,526 · ⑂ 2,683
A Decentralized Operating System for ZK Applications
- aleo
- blockchain
- cryptography
- zero-knowledge
- zksnarks
- rust
- 5freenet/freenet-core★ 2,701 · ⑂ 132
Declare your digital independence
- cryptography
- decentralized
- distributed-hash-table
- freenet
- p2p
- privacy
- 6nexus-xyz/nexus-zkvm★ 2,602 · ⑂ 543
The Nexus zkVM: The zero-knowledge virtual machine
- cryptography
- nexus
- rust
- snark
- zero-knowledge
- zkvm
- 7cryfs/cryfs★ 2,254 · ⑂ 171
Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud
- cryfs
- osxfuse
- filesystem
- crypto
- cloud
- encryption
- 8RustCrypto/hashes★ 2,213 · ⑂ 317
Collection of cryptographic hash functions written in pure Rust
- cryptographic-hash-functions
- blake2
- gost
- streebog
- groestl
- md2
- 9zama-ai/tfhe-rs★ 1,601 · ⑂ 322
TFHE-rs: A Pure Rust implementation of the TFHE Scheme for Boolean and Integer Arithmetics Over Encrypted Data.
- cryptography
- homomorphic-encryption
- rust
- tfhe
- 10buckyos/CYFS★ 1,437 · ⑂ 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
- 11rosenpass/rosenpass★ 1,343 · ⑂ 124
Rosenpass is a post-quantum-secure VPN that uses WireGuard to transport the actual data.
- cryptography
- post-quantum
- rust
- vpn
- wireguard
- 12
- 13noir-lang/noir★ 1,341 · ⑂ 389
Noir is a domain specific language for zero knowledge proofs
- cryptography
- zero-knowledge
- compiler
- noir-lang
- programming-language
- 14exonum/exonum★ 1,242 · ⑂ 245
An extensible open-source framework for creating private/permissioned blockchain applications
- blockchain
- rust
- cryptography
- bitcoin
- p2p
- consensus-algorithm
- 15zkonduit/ezkl★ 1,196 · ⑂ 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
- 16dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek★ 1,156 · ⑂ 590
A pure-Rust implementation of group operations on Ristretto and Curve25519
- cryptography
- elliptic-curves
- curve25519
- ristretto
- montgomery
- edwards-curve
- 17ProvableHQ/snarkVM★ 1,154 · ⑂ 1,548
A zkVM for Decentralized Private Computations (DPC)
- rust
- cryptography
- blockchain
- zero-knowledge
- zkp
- aleo
- 18nexus-xyz/nexus-cli★ 1,130 · ⑂ 664
Command line interface for supplying proofs to the Nexus network.
- cryptography
- network
- rust
- 19swanandx/lemmeknow★ 1,104 · ⑂ 43
The fastest way to identify anything!
- rust
- rust-lang
- rust-crate
- cybersecurity
- cli
- cryptography
- 20ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa★ 1,082 · ⑂ 333
Rust implementation of {t,n}-threshold ECDSA (elliptic curve digital signature algorithm).
- ecdsa
- multi-party-ecdsa
- signature
- rust
- secret-shares
- blockchain
- 21google/mundane★ 1,081 · ⑂ 42
Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL that is difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant (in that order).
- cryptography
- rust
- boringssl
- 22mcginty/snow★ 1,064 · ⑂ 133
A Rust implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework
- cryptography
- crypto
- noise-protocol-framework
- noise-protocol
- noise
- rust
- 23rpgp/rpgp★ 1,022 · ⑂ 102
OpenPGP implemented in pure Rust, permissively licensed
- rust
- pgp
- cryptography
- openpgp
- 24
- 25a16z/jolt★ 987 · ⑂ 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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