Recommended Crates

A set of recommended crates. They are not in any particular order.

• rand

  Random value generation.

• uuid

  Uuid values.

• Rust Crypto

  Rust implementations of common crypto algorithms. RSA/ECDSA/SHA/etc. Probably the most confusing thing is that most of the useful operations are available as traits which makes them difficult to discover.

  There are usually ways to import JWKs, PEMs/P8s, etc. which make it easier to work with.

• ring

  Ring implements common crypto algorithms in Rust, C, and assembly based on BoringSSL. More limited crypto operations and somewhat difficult to use. Keys must be converted to a set of supported formats which can be troulbesome.

• serde

  Serde is the standard serialization/deserialization library for many common formats like JSON and YAML.

• url

  Parses URLs.