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Getting started

  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Features
  • Installation

Guides

  • Overview
  • Encrypt data with a secret key
  • Work with passwords
  • Encrypt data for a recipient’s public key
  • Sign data and verify signatures
  • Hash data and authenticate messages
  • Generate, save, and load keys

Reference

  • API documentation
    • Crypto.Cipher package
      • AES
      • Classic modes of operation
      • Modern modes of operation
      • ChaCha20 and XChaCha20
      • Salsa20
      • ChaCha20-Poly1305 and XChaCha20-Poly1305
      • PKCS#1 OAEP (RSA)
      • Single DES
      • Triple DES
      • RC2
      • ARC4
      • Blowfish
      • CAST-128
      • PKCS#1 v1.5 encryption (RSA)
    • Crypto.Signature package
      • PKCS#1 v1.5 (RSA)
      • PKCS#1 PSS (RSA)
      • Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
      • Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA)
      • Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA and ECDSA)
    • Crypto.Hash package
      • SHA-224
      • SHA-256
      • SHA-384
      • SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256
      • SHA3-224
      • SHA3-256
      • SHA3-384
      • SHA3-512
      • TupleHash128
      • TupleHash256
      • BLAKE2s
      • BLAKE2b
      • SHAKE128
      • SHAKE256
      • cSHAKE128
      • cSHAKE256
      • KangarooTwelve
      • TurboSHAKE128 and TurboSHAKE256
      • HMAC
      • CMAC
      • Poly1305
      • KMAC128
      • KMAC256
      • SHA-1
      • MD2
      • MD4
      • MD5
      • RIPEMD-160
      • Keccak
    • Crypto.PublicKey package
      • RSA
      • ECC
      • ML-DSA
      • ML-KEM
      • Hybrid keys
      • DSA
      • El Gamal
    • Crypto.Protocol package
      • Key Derivation Functions
      • Secret Sharing Schemes
      • Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement
      • Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE)
    • Crypto.IO package
      • PEM
      • PKCS#8
      • Limits when decrypting private keys
    • Crypto.Random package
    • Crypto.Util package
      • Crypto.Util.asn1 module
  • Exceptions

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Crypto.IO package¶

Modules for reading and writing cryptographic data.

  • PEM

  • PKCS#8

  • Limits when decrypting private keys

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