Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_b6cecdf5ce464b5da7a2b7f2b93fe2d3

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/aes/fallback.rs`, which is a small AES fallback wrapper that constructs a `Key` and forwards block/CTR encryption to `aes_nohw_*` routines via `unsafe` macro calls. I checked this file for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `src/deprecated_test.rs`, which only re-exports internal test utilities, defines a small `test_file!` macro around `include_str!`, and exposes deprecated random-test type aliases. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other payload-execution behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `src/bb/boolmask.rs`, a small `BoolMask` wrapper over `Word` with a `leak()` boolean conversion and a `BitAnd` implementation. I checked for install-time 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. Reviewed `crypto/limbs/limbs.h`, which is a small C header declaring limb-arithmetic primitives and macros for ring’s internal big-number code. I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or other supply-chain compromise behavior in this file. Reviewed `src/aead/nonce.rs`, which is a small AEAD nonce wrapper exposing construction from a 12-byte value and a length constant. I found no concrete indicators of install-time execution, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in this file.

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