Crypto dev pushes back on 'safest AEGIS library' claim, favors Zig implementations
jedisct1 · x · 2026-09-28
After Philbin released a library billed as the safest and fastest AEGIS implementation, jedisct1 offered a nuanced take: other implementations are safe too, since virtually all cryptographic primitive implementations avoid pointers and dynamic allocation. He argues Zig implementations are generally safer thanks to the language's simplicity and checked arithmetic.
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