Hi all. I’d like to write a simple command line password manager for myself as a fun project. What’s a good crypto lib to use? Hopefully with examples.

I actually haven’t seen any encryption libraries that are as easy to use as Dream’s functions: Dream — Tidy, feature-complete web framework Of course there are other more powerful libraries, but Dream’s encrypt and decrypt seem good enough for a lot of use cases. You may be able to copy over the re…

If you are familiar with tweetnacl. There are bindings here .

Thanks a lot, I will have a look.

didn’t try it myself, but Argon2 is specifically tailored for passwords [image] GitHub - Khady/ocaml-argon2: Ocaml bindings to Argon2 Ocaml bindings to Argon2. Contribute to Khady/ocaml-argon2 development by creating an account on GitHub. (passwords should b…

[image] sanette: (passwords should be hashed and not encrypted) @msbic wants to write a password manager, not store the user passwords of a service (in which case you are right).

There are also some bindings to Monocypher : eris/ocaml-monocypher - Codeberg.org

Not sure it is intuitive, especially because it has an object interface instead of a functional one, but it does the job: [image] GitHub - xavierleroy/cryptokit: A library of cryptographic primitives... A library of cryptographic primitives (ciphers, hashes, etc) for OCaml - xavierlero…

Good suggestion. the RSA module seems like a nice functional API for asymmetric encryption.

This RSA module exposes only very low level primitives. It’s not something you should directly use to store encrypted passwords.

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msbic March 22, 2024, 1:48pm 12

Great suggestions. Thanks everyone!
I will evaluate them all

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