steel_crypt 3.0.0+1

A comprehensive library of high-level, cryptographic APIs. This library supports hashing, password hashing, two-way encryption, MAC authentication, and key/IV generation.

Steel Crypt 3.0 (BETA)

A comprehensive library of high-level, cryptographic API's, either manually defined or pulled from PointyCastle. This library currently supports hashing, symmetric two-way encryption, and key/IV generation. It also has a CLI, for conducting basic cryptography operations.

This library is a high-level wrapper over https://github.com/bcgit/pc-dart. It used to contain a fork of PointyCastle within it, but since the package came under the ownership of the BouncyCastle organization, the additions to the fork have been added upstream.

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It takes time, effort, and mental power to keep this package updated, useful, and improving. If you used or are using the package, I'd appreciate it if you could spare a few dollars to help me continue development.

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Null Safety

This library has been fully ported to null safety. The version 3.0.0 is identical functionally to 2.3.1+6, except for this porting process. There may be some slight variance in the interface, due to parameters becoming required where they were formerly "optional" named parameters.

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Note: Documentation

These docs have not been fully written yet! Steel Crypt 3.X comes with major changes, and will have a static website on GitHub Pages for documentation. For now, you can take a look at the API reference for more information on the beta's classes. Each class has fairly extensive documentation.

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Note: RSA Deprecation

As I looked at the package landscape on pub.dev, it became clear to me that packages have become oversaturated, causing difficult decisions for independent developers. I fear contributing to this issue.

Additionally, I haven't studied asymmetric encryption; I don't feel comfortable working with it and don't think this package is adding much to the ecosystem as far as asymmetric encryption goes.

As of today, I will be deprecating RSA functionality in steel_crypt. It is clear to me that there are better packages for asymmetric encryption; I highly encourage affected users to check out https://pub.dev/packages/crypton. The dev there actively works on supporting asymmetric operations, more than I ever could, and has a deeper scope of features than this package would have ever had.

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