Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_7707a5dcafd748cab44271e4bb1c7fa3

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/polyfill/notsend.rs`, which defines a zero-sized `NotSend` marker type using `PhantomData<*mut ()>` and compile-time assertions to enforce `!Send`/`Copy` properties. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence mechanisms. `crypto/mem.c` contains a small constant-time `CRYPTO_memcmp` implementation that XOR-accumulates two byte slices and returns the difference indicator. I checked this file for install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `src/error/input_too_long.rs`, which only defines a small internal error wrapper carrying an imprecise length value and a constructor. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other supply-chain compromise behavior in this file. Reviewed `src/polyfill/test.rs`, which contains a small Rust test helper for asserting `ExactSizeIterator` behavior by checking `len()`, `size_hint()`, iteration order, and exhaustion on both a cloned iterator and the original. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, secret access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other supply-chain compromise behavior in this file. Reviewed this header-only OpenSSL compatibility declaration in `include/ring-core/mem.h`. It only declares `CRYPTO_memcmp` and contains no install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other hidden execution paths.

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