Haskell High Performance Programming

Cryptography

The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

• SHA and RSA: Pure implementations of SHA routines and RSA encryption and signature algorithms. Not the fastest, but plain Haskell without any FFI. Created by Galois Inc.
• HsOpenSSL: Partial bindings to OpenSSL via FFI.
• cryptonite: Low-level cryptography primitives with varying API's and probably of varying quality.
• skein: Bindings to the skein family of fast and secure cryptographic hash functions.

For really robust, production-ready cryptography applications, one should look for bindings to existing cryptography libraries. For instance, the C implementation of the Skein hash function family has Haskell bindings in the similarly named library skein.

Although Haskell can be used to implement ...