Back to ring 0.17.14

Review rev_fb0f61aa62f04523a716eda7676171d3

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/padding.rs`, which contains RSA padding traits, MGF1 mask generation, and test helpers for PKCS#1/PSS encoding and verification. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other supply-chain indicators, and found no concrete malicious or suspicious behavior in this file. Reviewed this generated C header of symbol-prefix macros for ring's core assembly and crypto helpers. It only rewrites symbol names with `#define` aliases and I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file. `src/aead/chacha20_poly1305/mod.rs` implements ChaCha20-Poly1305 sealing and opening with CPU-feature dispatch, fallback paths, and length validation for AAD/payload sizes. I checked 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 `crypto/limbs/limbs.inl`, which is a small C inline helper for limb-wise arithmetic and constant-time selection/copy/zero routines used by `ring`. I checked it for install-time execution, hidden subprocesses, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other payload-construction behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators. Reviewed `src/ec/suite_b/ops/elem.rs`, which is a small elliptic-curve element wrapper and Montgomery-operation helper module. I checked for install-time execution, network or exfiltration, credential/secret access, hidden downloads, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.

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  "summary": "Reviewed `src/rsa/padding.rs`, which contains RSA padding traits, MGF1 mask generation, and test helpers for PKCS#1/PSS encoding and verification. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other supply-chain indicators, and found no concrete malicious or suspicious behavior in this file.\nReviewed this generated C header of symbol-prefix macros for ring's core assembly and crypto helpers. It only rewrites symbol names with `#define` aliases and I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file.\n`src/aead/chacha20_poly1305/mod.rs` implements ChaCha20-Poly1305 sealing and opening with CPU-feature dispatch, fallback paths, and length validation for AAD/payload sizes. I checked 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.\nReviewed `crypto/limbs/limbs.inl`, which is a small C inline helper for limb-wise arithmetic and constant-time selection/copy/zero routines used by `ring`. I checked it for install-time execution, hidden subprocesses, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other payload-construction behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators.\nReviewed `src/ec/suite_b/ops/elem.rs`, which is a small elliptic-curve element wrapper and Montgomery-operation helper module. I checked for install-time execution, network or exfiltration, credential/secret access, hidden downloads, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.",
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      "path": "src/rsa/padding.rs",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `src/rsa/padding.rs`, which contains RSA padding traits, MGF1 mask generation, and test helpers for PKCS#1/PSS encoding and verification. I checked for install-time hooks, network or exfiltration behavior, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other supply-chain indicators, and found no concrete malicious or suspicious behavior in this file.",
      "severity": "none",
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    },
    {
      "path": "pregenerated/ring_core_generated/prefix_symbols.h",
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      "summary": "Reviewed this generated C header of symbol-prefix macros for ring's core assembly and crypto helpers. It only rewrites symbol names with `#define` aliases and I found no concrete indicators of install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file.",
      "severity": "none",
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      "path": "src/aead/chacha20_poly1305/mod.rs",
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      "summary": "`src/aead/chacha20_poly1305/mod.rs` implements ChaCha20-Poly1305 sealing and opening with CPU-feature dispatch, fallback paths, and length validation for AAD/payload sizes. I checked 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.",
      "severity": "none",
      "confidence": "high"
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      "path": "crypto/limbs/limbs.inl",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `crypto/limbs/limbs.inl`, which is a small C inline helper for limb-wise arithmetic and constant-time selection/copy/zero routines used by `ring`. I checked it for install-time execution, hidden subprocesses, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and other payload-construction behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators.",
      "severity": "none",
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      "summary": "Reviewed `src/ec/suite_b/ops/elem.rs`, which is a small elliptic-curve element wrapper and Montgomery-operation helper module. I checked for install-time execution, network or exfiltration, credential/secret access, hidden downloads, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.",
      "severity": "none",
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