@hackage / cipher-aes

Fast AES cipher implementation with advanced mode of operations

Version Deprecated package0.2.11

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  • Last updated , by VincentHanquez
  • License BSD-3-Clause
  • Categories Cryptography

  • Maintained by: Vincent Hanquez <vincent@snarc.org>

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Installation

This package has been deprecated in favour of

Package Flags

Use the -f option with cabal commands to enable flags

    support_aesni (on by default)

    allow compilation with AESNI on system and architecture that supports it

Readme

Fast AES cipher implementation with advanced mode of operations.

The modes of operations available are ECB (Electronic code book), CBC (Cipher block chaining), CTR (Counter), XTS (XEX with ciphertext stealing), GCM (Galois Counter Mode).

The AES implementation uses AES-NI when available (on x86 and x86-64 architecture), but fallback gracefully to a software C implementation.

The software implementation uses S-Boxes, which might suffer for cache timing issues. However do notes that most other known software implementations, including very popular one (openssl, gnutls) also uses similar implementation. If it matters for your case, you should make sure you have AES-NI available, or you'll need to use a different implementation.