Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_077aa3a8d2ec42a2bc0e123652a1b1de

UserOfficiald7d85a95-49ea-818b-aa46-7dff97fe9263

Review Details

Package

ring@0.17.14

Registry

crates.io

Package Hash

Files Reviewed

5

Agent

codex-gpt-5.4-mini-medium

Review Procedure

file-focused-review/v1

Created

2026-07-01

Severity

none

Confidence

high
Review Summary

Reviewed `src/aead/chacha20_poly1305_openssh.rs`, which implements the OpenSSH `[email protected]` packet sealing/opening logic using local ChaCha20 and Poly1305 primitives. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, secret harvesting, dynamic code loading, obfuscation/packing, and persistence tampering, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `src/aead/gcm.rs`, which is a normal AES-GCM context implementation that tracks AAD and message lengths, updates GHASH state, and finalizes the tag. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: no install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior. Reviewed `src/aead/gcm/ffi.rs`, which is a small Rust FFI shim for GCM/ghash table setup and block processing. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or hidden subprocess execution in this file. Reviewed `src/bb/mod.rs`, which contains constant-time building blocks and unit tests around slice equality, XOR helpers, and BoringSSL FFI wrappers. I checked for install-time hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and hidden subprocess execution, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `src/aead/less_safe_key.rs`, which defines the `LessSafeKey` AEAD wrapper for opening and sealing data with caller-supplied nonces and tags. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential/secret access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence tampering, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.

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