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OCB has been around for a long time. It's simpler, faster and more secure than AES-GCM. RFC 7253 was published in 2014. OCB also won the CAESAR competition along with AEGIS. It's been implemented in OpenSSL and other libraries for years. So, why isn't everybody using it instead of GCM? And why don't we have it in Zig already? The sad reason for this was patents. GCM was invented only to work around these patents, and for all this time, OCB was that nice thing that everybody knew existed but that couldn't be freely used. That just changed. The OCB patents are now abandoned, and OCB's author just announced that OCB was officially public domain. |
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A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Projects
Installation
- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- bootstrap zig for any target
License
The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.