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# Sharks
2020-01-13 11:29:00 +00:00
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Fast, small and secure [Shamir's Secret Sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing) library crate
Documentation:
- [API reference (docs.rs)](https://docs.rs/sharks)
## Usage
Add this to your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
sharks = "0.2"
```
To get started using Sharks, see the [Rust docs](https://docs.rs/sharks)
## Features
### Developer friendly
The API is simple and to the point, with minimal configuration.
### Fast and small
The code is as idiomatic and clean as possible, with minimum external dependencies.
### Secure by design
The implementation forbids the user to choose parameters that would result in an insecure application,
like generating more shares than what's allowed by the finite field length.
## Limitations
Because the Galois finite field it uses is [GF256](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field#GF(p2)_for_an_odd_prime_p),
only up to 255 shares can be generated for a given secret. A larger number would be insecure as shares would start duplicating.
Nevertheless, the secret can be arbitrarily long as computations are performed on single byte chunks.
## Testing
This crate contains both unit and benchmark tests (as well as the examples included in the docs).
You can run them with `cargo test` and `cargo bench`.
### Benchmark results [min mean max]
| CPU | obtain_shares_dealer | step_shares_dealer | recover_secret |
| ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz | [1.4321 us 1.4339 us 1.4357 us] | [1.3385 ns 1.3456 ns 1.3552 ns] | [228.77 us 232.17 us 236.23 us] |
# Contributing
If you find a vulnerability, bug or would like a new feature, [open a new issue](https://github.com/c0dearm/sharks/issues/new).
To introduce your changes into the codebase, submit a Pull Request.
Many thanks!
# License
Sharks is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the
Apache License (Version 2.0).
See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) and [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and
[COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details.