Rewriting SymCrypt in Rust to modernize Microsoft’s cryptographic library

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Rewriting SymCrypt in Rust to modernize Microsoft’s cryptographic library

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We're rewriting parts of Microsoft's SymCrypt cryptographic library in Rust to improve memory safety and defend against side-channel attacks, enabling formal verification while maintaining backward compatibility via a Rust-to-C compiler:

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