Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_c3b7275b7afb4074ac75e5e012548562

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/rsa/verification.rs`, which implements RSA signature verification parameters and the core `verify_rsa_` path. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: no install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, or hidden subprocess execution. I reviewed `src/ec/curve25519/ed25519/signing.rs`, which implements Ed25519 key generation, PKCS#8 parsing, and signature creation using local digest and scalar-multiplication primitives. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration paths, credential/secret harvesting, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior. Reviewed `include/ring-core/asm_base.h`, a build helper header for assembly that defines ELF stack notes and ARM/AArch64 CET, BTI, and PAC macros. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior. Reviewed `src/rsa/public_key.rs`, which implements RSA public-key parsing, serialization, and modular exponentiation for verification. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: there are no install hooks, network or exfiltration code, credential or environment harvesting, dynamic code loading, obfuscation/deobfuscation, or persistence mechanisms. Reviewed `crypto/perlasm/x86nasm.pl`, a Perl-based NASM/OpenSSL assembly emitter that defines helper routines for labels, directives, data emission, and file/segment setup. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration calls, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation/deobfuscation, persistence, and hidden subprocess execution, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.

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