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phylax

v0.1.0RubyGems· Ruby

phylax (Greek "guardian") is a thin, safe-by-default binding to the Windows Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG / bcrypt.dll) and DPAPI. It does not implement any cryptography of its own — it exposes the operating system's own validated primitives through an ergonomic, hard-to-misuse Ruby API: a cryptographically secure RNG, SHA-2 hashing and HMAC (one-shot and streaming), PBKDF2 key derivation, authenticated AES-256-GCM encryption (SecretBox, with nonces generated and framed automatically so reuse is impossible), a constant-time comparison, and DPAPI protect/unprotect for secrets at rest. Windows MSVC (mswin) Ruby only.

The verdict
Maintained. Niche but maintained, actively maintained.
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How it scores
MaintenanceHealthy
PopularityNiche
SecurityClean
LicensePermissive
DepsZero deps
Maintenance
Last published this month.
Popularity
121 downloads / week
Security
No known advisories for this version (OSV).
License
MIT
Dependencies
No runtime dependencies
Recent releases
  • 0.1.0this month
phylax — phylax (Greek "guardian") is a thin, safe-by-default binding to the Windows Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG / bcrypt.dll) and DPAPI. It does not implement any cryptography of its own — it exposes the operating system's own validated primitives through an ergonomic, hard-to-misuse Ruby API: a cryptographically secure RNG, SHA-2 hashing and HMAC (one-shot and streaming), PBKDF2 key derivation, authenticated AES-256-GCM encryption (SecretBox, with nonces generated and framed automatically so reuse is impossible), a constant-time comparison, and DPAPI protect/unprotect for secrets at rest. Windows MSVC (mswin) Ruby only. (Ruby / RubyGems) · Modules