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#![no_std]
#![doc = include_str!("../README.md")]
#![doc(
    html_logo_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RustCrypto/media/8f1a9894/logo.svg",
    html_favicon_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RustCrypto/media/8f1a9894/logo.svg"
)]
#![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_auto_cfg))]
#![forbid(unsafe_code)]
#![warn(
    clippy::mod_module_files,
    clippy::unwrap_used,
    missing_docs,
    rust_2018_idioms,
    unused_lifetimes,
    unused_qualifications
)]

//! # Design
//!
//! This crate provides a common set of traits for signing and verifying
//! digital signatures intended to be implemented by libraries which produce
//! or contain implementations of digital signature algorithms, and used by
//! libraries which want to produce or verify digital signatures while
//! generically supporting any compatible backend.
//!
//! ## Goals
//!
//! The traits provided by this crate were designed with the following goals
//! in mind:
//!
//! - Provide an easy-to-use, misuse resistant API optimized for consumers
//!   (as opposed to implementers) of its traits.
//! - Support common type-safe wrappers around "bag-of-bytes" representations
//!   which can be directly parsed from or written to the "wire".
//! - Expose a trait/object-safe API where signers/verifiers spanning multiple
//!   homogeneous provider implementations can be seamlessly leveraged together
//!   in the same logical "keyring" so long as they operate on the same
//!   underlying signature type.
//! - Allow one provider type to potentially implement support (including
//!   being generic over) several signature types.
//! - Keep signature algorithm customizations / "knobs" out-of-band from the
//!   signing/verification APIs, ideally pushing such concerns into the type
//!   system so that algorithm mismatches are caught as type errors.
//! - Opaque error type which minimizes information leaked from cryptographic
//!   failures, as "rich" error types in these scenarios are often a source
//!   of sidechannel information for attackers (e.g. [BB'06])
//!
//! [BB'06]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bleichenbacher
//!
//! ## Implementation
//!
//! To accomplish the above goals, the [`Signer`] and [`Verifier`] traits
//! provided by this are generic over a signature value, and use generic
//! parameters rather than associated types. Notably, they use such a parameter
//! for the return value, allowing it to be inferred by the type checker based
//! on the desired signature type.
//!
//! ## Alternatives considered
//!
//! This crate is based on many years of exploration of how to encapsulate
//! digital signature systems in the most flexible, developer-friendly way.
//! During that time many design alternatives were explored, tradeoffs
//! compared, and ultimately the provided API was selected.
//!
//! The tradeoffs made in this API have all been to improve simplicity,
//! ergonomics, type safety, and flexibility for *consumers* of the traits.
//! At times, this has come at a cost to implementers. Below are some concerns
//! we are cognizant of which were considered in the design of the API:
//!
//! - "Bag-of-bytes" serialization precludes signature providers from using
//!   their own internal representation of a signature, which can be helpful
//!   for many reasons (e.g. advanced signature system features like batch
//!   verification).
//! - Associated types, rather than generic parameters of traits, could allow
//!   more customization of the types used by a particular signature system,
//!   e.g. using custom error types.
//!
//! It may still make sense to continue to explore the above tradeoffs, but
//! with a *new* set of traits which are intended to be implementor-friendly,
//! rather than consumer friendly. The existing [`Signer`] and [`Verifier`]
//! traits could have blanket impls for the "provider-friendly" traits.
//! However, as noted above this is a design space easily explored after
//! stabilizing the consumer-oriented traits, and thus we consider these
//! more important.
//!
//! That said, below are some caveats of trying to design such traits, and
//! why we haven't actively pursued them:
//!
//! - Generics in the return position are already used to select which trait
//!   impl to use, i.e. for a particular signature algorithm/system. Avoiding
//!   a unified, concrete signature type adds another dimension to complexity
//!   and compiler errors, and in our experience makes them unsuitable for this
//!   sort of API. We believe such an API is the natural one for signature
//!   systems, reflecting the natural way they are written absent a trait.
//! - Associated types preclude multiple implementations of the same trait.
//!   These parameters are common in signature systems, notably ones which
//!   support different serializations of a signature (e.g. raw vs ASN.1).
//! - Digital signatures are almost always larger than the present 32-entry
//!   trait impl limitation on array types, which complicates bounds
//!   for these types (particularly things like `From` or `Borrow` bounds).
//!
//! ## Unstable features
//!
//! Despite being post-1.0, this crate includes off-by-default unstable
//! optional features, each of which depends on a pre-1.0
//! crate.
//!
//! These features are considered exempt from SemVer. See the
//! [SemVer policy](#semver-policy) above for more information.
//!
//! The following unstable features are presently supported:
//!
//! - `digest`: enables the [`DigestSigner`] and [`DigestVerifier`]
//!   traits which are based on the [`Digest`] trait from the [`digest`] crate.
//!   These traits are used for representing signature systems based on the
//!   [Fiat-Shamir heuristic] which compute a random challenge value to sign
//!   by computing a cryptographically secure digest of the input message.
//! - `rand_core`: enables the [`RandomizedSigner`] trait for signature
//!   systems which rely on a cryptographically secure random number generator
//!   for security.
//!
//! NOTE: the [`async-signature`] crate contains experimental `async` support
//! for [`Signer`] and [`DigestSigner`].
//!
//! [`async-signature`]: https://docs.rs/async-signature
//! [`digest`]: https://docs.rs/digest/
//! [`Digest`]: https://docs.rs/digest/latest/digest/trait.Digest.html
//! [Fiat-Shamir heuristic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat%E2%80%93Shamir_heuristic

#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
extern crate alloc;
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
extern crate std;

pub mod hazmat;

mod encoding;
mod error;
mod keypair;
mod signer;
mod verifier;

#[cfg(feature = "digest")]
mod prehash_signature;

pub use crate::{encoding::*, error::*, keypair::*, signer::*, verifier::*};

#[cfg(feature = "derive")]
pub use derive::{Signer, Verifier};

#[cfg(all(feature = "derive", feature = "digest"))]
pub use derive::{DigestSigner, DigestVerifier};

#[cfg(feature = "digest")]
pub use {crate::prehash_signature::*, digest};

#[cfg(feature = "rand_core")]
pub use rand_core;