Google releases Tink, a simple, cross-platform cryptography library

guest · Aug 31, 2018

Google releases Tink, a simple, cross-platform cryptography library
August 30, 2018
https://9to5google.com/2018/08/30/google-releases-tink-a-simple-cross-platform-cryptography-library/

As (increasingly frequent) data leaks have proven, encryption is hard, and good encryption can be even harder. Today, Google has announced the first major release of Tink, an open-source, cross-platform library designed to make secure encryption easier for developers to use correctly.

To achieve this goal, Tink offers a variety of built-in encryption and decryption methods, key generation tools (to be used outside of your code, for safety), key rotation, and remote key support.

Tink is open-source, and has been hosted on GitHub since its creation, with the intention of becoming a community project. While Tink began development January of last year, and saw its first release that September, today’s announcement coincides with the release of version 1.2.0. This is a milestone for the project, as it’s the first version to have well-tested support for Android, iOS, and C++. (Go and JavaScript support are currently in-development.)
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deBoetie · Sep 1, 2018

Welcome....... BUT. Why oh why oh why are we then expecting application coders (presumably) to write in unsafe languages that were part of the problem in the first place? While C++ CAN be used fairly safely (combined with compiler switches), it's frequently not. Why are we not seeing demonstrable validity in code which handles crypto and real-world libraries?

In addition, this does not solve the secrets in memory issue that Meltdown and Spectre raise.

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