Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_5caf1e16f8c4448196595754469471b4

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 `crypto/fipsmodule/ec/p256-nistz.h`, which is a C header declaring P-256 finite-field and point-operation APIs behind `OPENSSL_USE_NISTZ256` and x86_64 feature gates. I checked it for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `src/rsa/padding/pkcs1.rs`, which contains standard PKCS#1 v1.5 RSA signature padding/verification logic and static DigestInfo prefixes for SHA-1/256/384/512. I checked for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and hidden subprocess execution, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `crypto/limbs/limbs.c`, which is a low-level big-number limb arithmetic implementation for constant-time comparisons, modular add/subtract, shifts, and multiply-add helpers. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration calls, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation/packing, or persistence behaviors. Reviewed `src/aead/poly1305_test.txt`, which appears to be a static Poly1305 test-vector corpus copied from OpenSSL/RFC sources. I checked for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `src/aead/quic.rs`, which implements QUIC header-protection key setup and mask generation for AES-128, AES-256, and ChaCha20. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other supply-chain indicators; none were present in this file.

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      "severity": "none",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `crypto/limbs/limbs.c`, which is a low-level big-number limb arithmetic implementation for constant-time comparisons, modular add/subtract, shifts, and multiply-add helpers. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration calls, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation/packing, or persistence behaviors.",
      "severity": "none",
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      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
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