argon2rs

This is a purely Rust-based library that provides both variants of the state-of-the-art Argon2 hashing algorithm, suitable for password hashing and password-based key derivation.

Documentation

Installation

Via cargo:

$ cd $PROJECT_ROOT
$ cargo install --features "simd"

From git:

$ git clone https://github.com/bryant/argon2rs $ARGON_DIR && cd $ARGON_DIR
$ cargo build --features "simd"

Usage

From examples/helloworld.rs:

extern crate argon2rs;

pub fn main() {
    let (password, salt) = ("argon2i!", "delicious salt");
    println!("argon2i_simple(\"{}\", \"{}\"):", password, salt);
    for byte in argon2rs::argon2i_simple(&password, &salt).iter() {
        print!("{:02x}", byte);
    }
    println!("");
}

outputs:

argon2i_simple("argon2i!", "delicious salt"):
e254b28d820f26706a19309f1888cefd5d48d91384f35dc2e3fe75c3a8f665a6

There are two variants of Argon2 that differ in the manner by which reference indices are computed during block-filling rounds. Argon2d does this in a faster but data-dependent fashion that could be vulnerable to side-channel attacks, whereas Argon2i ("i" denoting independence from plaintext input) works slower but is immune to such attacks and is therefore the preferred choice for password hashing.

TODO

• Parallelize.
• Incorporate SIMD into compression function.
• Zero-on-drop trait for sensitive(s): Matrix
• Constant-time verification API.
• Benchmarks.
• Support NEON and SIMD on other arches.
• Fuzz.
• Prove safety of unchecked accesses in Block, Matrix.

Benchmarks

Our primary benchmarks are single- and multi-threaded runs of Argon2i with default parameters against the reference implementation. In order to compile and run this, first pull in the C sources:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update benches/cargon/phc-winner-argon2

and then benchmark with Cargo as usual:

$ rustc --version
rustc 1.11.0-dev (4b240fe96 2016-06-08)

$ export RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+avx'
$ cargo bench --features="simd bench_ref"

# output trimmed for brevity

     Running target/release/versus_cargon-b5955411e1594c85

running 5 tests
test ensure_identical_hashes ... ignored
test bench_argon2rs_i        ... bench:   9,547,031 ns/iter (+/- 15,964)
test bench_argon2rs_threaded ... bench:   4,584,163 ns/iter (+/- 398,803)
test bench_cargon_i          ... bench:  10,013,015 ns/iter (+/- 177,482)
test bench_cargon_threaded   ... bench:   3,753,022 ns/iter (+/- 48,688)

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 2 measured

References

"Argon2: The Memory-Hard Function for Password Hashing and Other Applications"