microcrypt

Portable crypto primitives for embedded systems in pure C99 with zero dependencies and zero dynamic allocations.

Security notice

This project is a portable reference implementation. It has not been audited for side-channel resistance (timing/power/cache attacks). For high-security production systems, use audited libraries or hardware accelerators.

Features

• SHA-256 (FIPS 180-4), one-shot and incremental API
• HMAC-SHA256 (RFC 2104 / RFC 4231), one-shot and incremental API
• AES-128 ECB encrypt/decrypt (FIPS 197)
• AES-128 CBC encrypt/decrypt with IV chaining
• Test vectors from NIST and RFC sources

Project structure

• include/mcrypt.h public API
• src/mcrypt.c implementation
• tests/test_all.c vector tests
• tests/mtest.h minimal local test framework
• docs/DESIGN.md design notes

Build and test

Linux/macOS:

cd tests
make

Windows (clang example):

clang -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror -Iinclude src/mcrypt.c tests/test_all.c -o tests/test_all.exe
./tests/test_all.exe

Minimal usage

#include "mcrypt.h"

uint8_t digest[32];
mcrypt_sha256(data, data_len, digest);

Versioning

Current release: 1.0.0 (see CHANGELOG.md).

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE.