Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 35 · Aug 25 – 31, 2025
Tooling: StrongBox – Simple, Safe Data Encryption for Rust
Worth knowingtooling
- What changed
- StrongBox is introduced as a simple, safe data encryption library for Rust.
- Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Include
strongboxin a project and encrypt a small string. - Source
- this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/08/27/this-week-in-rust-614/
Understand it, then run it
Run it now
// This program demonstrates how you would use StrongBox once it is available.
// It does not compile until the crate is published and added to Cargo.toml.
fn main() {
// In a real project you would add:
// strongbox = "0.1"
// to your Cargo.toml and import the crate.
//
// let key = b"an example very secret key";
// let sb = strongbox::StrongBox::new(key).expect("key size ok");
// let plaintext = b"Hello, world!";
// let ciphertext = sb.encrypt(plaintext).expect("encryption");
// let decrypted = sb.decrypt(&ciphertext).expect("decryption");
// assert_eq!(plaintext, &decrypted[..]);
println!("StrongBox is a new crate for safe data encryption.");
}
What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)
StrongBox is a new crate for safe data encryption.
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Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed