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CIRCL: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2019-07-18 · latest 2026-07-07

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  1. …bug. The fix is to "not do that", although one does wonder what the original author was smoking! https://github.com/cloudflare/circl/commit/f7d2180d6a77cfb28...
  2. …clicking through to the commit (thanks for that too btw) I see there was a regression test added: https://github.com/cloudflare/circl/commit/def2fd35b8535b0b8... but I'm wondering why there isn't a test further up the stack that is simply…
  3. …Cloudflare's CIRCL[0] library does a bit better, but shares some of the same problems. [0] https://github.com/cloudflare/circl
    comment by alphazard · 2025-11-20 · in Go Cryptography State of the Union
  4. …an EC Cryptography 101 level mistake. Reading the actual CIRCL library source and README on GitHub: https://github.com/cloudflare/circl makes me see it as just fundamentally unserious, though; there's a big "lol don't use this!" disclaimer…
  5. And a Go implementation I wrote for Cloudflare. https://github.com/cloudflare/circl/tree/main/kem/kyber
  6. …standardize SIKE through NIST. Most open source cryptographic libraries don't implement SIKE. [1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/circl [2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/PQCrypto-SIKE
    comment by agucova · 2022-06-15 · in Hertzbleed Attack
  7. Github repo: http://github.com/cloudflare/circl