Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_5f7c843a3d244290b2db458569e0061e

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 `tests/pbkdf2_tests.rs`, which is a local PBKDF2 test harness that loads static test vectors and exercises `ring::pbkdf2::derive` and `verify` across SHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-384/SHA-512 cases. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network or exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in this target file. Reviewed `src/digest/sha2/ffi.rs`, which is a small Rust FFI adapter for SHA-2 block-processing entry points. I checked it for install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other hidden payload execution, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed `include/ring-core/base.h`, a small BoringSSL-compatible header that sets compiler/OS macros, export visibility, and static size assertions. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other hidden execution paths, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. I reviewed `src/aead/chacha/ffi.rs`, which is a small ChaCha20 FFI wrapper that forwards validated buffers, key material, and a counter into an external cipher routine. I did not find 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 behavior. Reviewed `crypto/fipsmodule/bn/montgomery.c`, which implements constant-time Montgomery reduction for bignum arithmetic. I checked for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and unrelated probing, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.

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