Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust

Re:Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust by tines on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:15PM (#37275370)

> So far the only solid use case for Rust that I have seen in applications where security is extremely important.

Playing devil's advocate, when is security not extremely important, except maybe in throwaway bash script-type applications?

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Re:Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust by ronsor on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:23PM (#37275457)

* Toy one-off scripts, not even shell scripts necessarily

* Small things for one's personal use or local network use only

* Quickly prototyped experiments, as long as they're not used in production

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Re:Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust by cshimmin on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:27PM (#37275512)

* academic/scientific research

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Re:Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust by TillE on Saturday August 26, 2023 @04:05PM (#37276364)

Games. The attack surface for third-party input is very limited, and you can just secure those bits rather than adopting a new language for the entire program.

Like, you need to be able to sandbox mods if they're a thing, and Rust's memory safety only handles a tiny part of that.

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Re:Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust by ZiiS on Saturday August 26, 2023 @04:55PM (#37276828)

Single player games maybe, cheating in multiplayer games can be big business.

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Re:Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust by tines on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:34PM (#37277505)

Multiplayer games have huge attack surfaces.

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