NaCl Is Not a High-Level API

When talking about high-level application cryptography APIs I usually hear mentioned libsodium, Tink, pyca/cryptography, and NaCl. One of these things is not like the others! The value NaCl had 10 years ago was that it was an opinionated library at a time when all cryptography libraries were...

Fedora 27 : python-cryptography / python-cryptography-vectors (2018-06c24068c6)

New upstream release 2.3 Fixes possible tag truncation security bug in AEAD API, see RHBZ1602752 2.3 - 2018-07-18 - SECURITY ISSUE: finalizewithtag allowed tag truncation by default which can allow tag forgery in some cases. The method now enforces the mintaglength provided to the GCM constructor...