# [RustCrypto]: Cryptographic Big Integers
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Pure Rust implementation of a big integer library which has been designed from
the ground-up for use in cryptographic applications.
Provides constant-time, `no_std`-friendly implementations of modern formulas
using const generics.
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## Goals
- Supports `no_std`-friendly const generic stack-allocated big integers.
- Constant-time by default. Variable-time functions are explicitly marked as such.
- Leverage what is possible today with const generics on `stable` rust.
- Support `const fn` as much as possible, including decoding big integers from
bytes/hex and performing arithmetic operations on them, with the goal of
being able to compute values at compile-time.
## Security Notes
This crate has been [audited by NCC Group] with no significant
findings. We would like to thank [Entropy] for funding the audit.
All functions contained in the crate are designed to execute in constant
time unless explicitly specified otherwise (via a `*_vartime` name suffix).
This library is not suitable for use on processors with a variable-time
multiplication operation (e.g. short circuit on multiply-by-zero /
multiply-by-one, such as certain 32-bit PowerPC CPUs and some non-ARM
microcontrollers).
## Minimum Supported Rust Version
This crate requires **Rust 1.65** at a minimum.
We may change the MSRV in the future, but it will be accompanied by a minor
version bump.
## License
Licensed under either of:
- [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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[RustCrypto]: https://github.com/rustcrypto
[audited by NCC Group]: https://research.nccgroup.com/2023/08/30/public-report-entropy-rust-cryptography-review/
[Entropy]: https://entropy.xyz/