chily

🌶 CryptoLib: chily

Authenticated Encryption

The plan for chily is to have pure Rust implementation for the following crypto protocols (following RFC 7539):

• Key exchange: X25519
• Encryption: XSalsa20 stream cipher
• Authentication: Poly1305 MAC

In contrast to RFC 7530 we use XChaCha20 instead of ChaCha in order to have a 24 byte nonce (instead of 96bits).

Randomness

We heavily rely on "secure" randomness in this library. Mainly for key generation in the enclave (no external static key can be provided) and nonce derivation. Depending on the target we use the following sources:

• x64: getrandom system call if available, otherwise /dev/urandom
• SGX: Based on rdrand instructions of the CPU (https://docs.rs/rdrand/0.6.0/rdrand/)
• WASM: Crypto.getRandomValues exposed by the JS engine via wasm-bindgen bridge

🚴 Usage

Rust

Just add chily as a dependency and see how it's being used in the following example:

// generate random keypair
let alice = Keypair::generate();

// or parse a secret from existing bytes
let bob_secret: [u8; 32] = [
    64, 218, 126, 251, 171, 87, 50, 212, 196, 55, 166, 65, 195, 199, 64, 229, 128, 129,
    243, 144, 211, 52, 77, 159, 48, 167, 45, 8, 79, 228, 116, 101,
];
// and then create the keypair
let bob = Keypair::from_secret_key(bob_secret.into());

// define some buffer
let plaintext = b"avato rocks";
let mut buffer = plaintext.to_vec();

// create a random Nonce
let nonce = Nonce::from_random();

// instantiate the cipher
let mut cipher = Cipher::new(&alice.secret, &bob.public);

// encrypt in place
let tag = cipher.encrypt_in_place_detached(&mut buffer, b"", &nonce);

// decrypt in place
cipher.decrypt_in_place_detached(&mut buffer, b"", &nonce, &tag);

assert_eq!(plaintext.to_vec(), buffer); // Ok!

JavaScript / TypeScript

Add the package from folder js/pkg as dependency to the package.json in your project:

  "dependencies": {
    "chily": "file:chily-0.2.0.tgz"
  }

Then the library can be used as shown below:

import * as chily from "chily";

// generate random keypair
let alice = chily.Keypair.fromRandom();

// or parse a secret from existing bytes
let bob_secret = chily.StaticSecret.fromBytes(new Uint8Array([
    64, 218, 126, 251, 171, 87, 50, 212, 196, 55, 166, 65, 195, 199, 64, 229, 128, 129,
    243, 144, 211, 52, 77, 159, 48, 167, 45, 8, 79, 228, 116, 101,
]));
// and then create the keypair
let bob = chily.Keypair.fromSecret(bob_secret);

// create a random Nonce
let nonce = chily.Nonce.fromRandom();

// instantiate the cipher
let cipher = chily.Cipher.new(alice.secret, bob.publicKey);

// define some buffer
var plaintext = new Uint8Array([21,31]);

// encrypt
let encrypted = cipher.encrypt(plaintext, nonce);

// decrypt
let decrypted = cipher.decrypt(encrypted, nonce);

expect(plaintext).to.eql(decrypted); // Ok!

Python

Install the wheel from folder py/pkg by running pip3 install chily.whl Then the library can be used as shown below:

import chily

# generate random keypair
alice = chily.Keypair.from_random();

# or parse a secret from existing bytes
bob_secret = chily.StaticSecret.from_bytes([
    64, 218, 126, 251, 171, 87, 50, 212, 196, 55, 166, 65, 195, 199, 64, 229, 128, 129,
    243, 144, 211, 52, 77, 159, 48, 167, 45, 8, 79, 228, 116, 101,
])
# and then create the keypair
bob = chily.Keypair.from_secret(bob_secret)

# create a random Nonce
nonce = chily.Nonce.from_random();

# instantiate the cipher
cipher = chily.Cipher(alice.secret, bob.publicKey, nonce)

# define some buffer
plaintext = [21,31]

# encrypt 
enc = cipher.encrypt(plaintext, nonce)

# decrypt
dec = cipher.decrypt(enc, nonce)

assert plaintext == dec

🛠️ Test

We have four different test stages.

Rust

Regular tests written in Rust. Just call cargo test.

WASM

Some test can be specified to run in the node wasm interpreter. They are defined using the [wasm_bindgen_test] attribute. In order to run them go execute the following command in the js folder:

npm run wasm-test

JavaScript / TypeScript

There also are some tests for the JavaScript bindings using mocha and chai.
They are defined in the folder js/tests and can be run using the following command:

npm run test

Python

There also are some tests for the Python bindings using tox.
They are defined in the folder py/tests and can be run using the following command:

tox

🎁 Build & Package

JavaScript / TypeScript

To build the wasm code and the js/ts binding run in the js folder:

• npm run build-node for nodejs
• npm run build-bundler for browser / webpack
• npm run build for one compatible with both

Then package the dependency by running npm pack in the corresponding pkg dir.

Python

To build the python bindings you'll need maturin. Run in the py folder:

• pip3 install maturin to install maturin
• ./build.sh to build the wheel for the current platform in the pkg folder

🔋 ToDos

• Add X.509 cert support
• Error handling
• Add Poly1305 MAC