Alternative Crypto Libraries

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Right now running into issues with mbedtls and it not generating proper sha256 output about 25% of the time. As such an alternative needs to be investigated:

• https://github.com/cossacklabs/themis
• https://github.com/miracl/MIRACL
• https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium
  • alternative: https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen
  • https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-xchacha20-siv
  • https://github.com/jedisct1/charm
• https://github.com/rweather/lightweight-crypto
• https://github.com/ANSSI-FR/libecc
• https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs
• https://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/software.html
• https://nacl.cr.yp.to/
  • https://github.com/notfed/nacltools
• https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt
• https://www.openssl.org/
  • https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/ (google fork)
  • https://www.libressl.org/ (bsd fork)
• https://gnupg.org/related_software/libgcrypt/
• https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/
• https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl
• https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls
• https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle
• https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss (NSS: Network Security Services)

MISC

• Can use https://github.com/jedisct1/fpst for checking peerIDs
• https://github.com/popovec/oseid ATMEGA 128 ECC & RSA crypto

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superseded by https://github.com/RTradeLtd/libcp2p/wiki/Alternative-Cryptography-Libraries