Tink v1.3.0-rc1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-07-01 // over 4 years ago
  • Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform library that provides simple and misuse-proof APIs for common cryptographic tasks.

    🚀 This is Tink 1.3.0 Release Candidate 1

    🔄 Changes

    The complete list of changes since 1.2.2 can be found here.

    The main changes include:

    • 🆕 new language: Tink in Go, with primitives MAC, AEAD (incl. KMS envelope), deterministic AEAD, hybrid encryption and digital signatures (see supported primitives and GOLANG HOWTO for details)
    • C++ deterministic AEAD (AES-SIV) and streaming AEAD (AES-GCM-HKDF-STREAMING)
    • C++ KMS-AEAD and KMS-envelope-AEAD, incl. integration with AWS KMS and GCP KMS.
    • RSA-signatures for Java and C++ (RSA-SSA-PKCS1, RSA-SSA-PSS)
    • ED25519 signatures for C++, Obj-C, and Go

    Please note that Tink JavaScript and Tink Python are not a part of this release. Moreover, streaming envelope encryption (for Java and C++) has been de-prioritized and also is not a part of this release.

    Installation

    C++ with prebuilt binaries

    OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"TARGET\_DIR="/usr/local"curl -L \ "https://storage.googleapis.com/tink/releases/libtink-${OS}-x86\_64-1.3.0-rc1.tar.gz" |sudo tar -xz -C ${TARGET\_DIR}
    

    Obj-C with CocoaPods

    cd /path/to/your/Xcode project/ pod init pod 'Tink', '1.3.0-rc1'pod install
    

    Golang

    To install Tink locally run:

    go get github.com/google/tink/go/...
    

    Java with Maven

    \<dependency\> \<groupId\>com.google.crypto.tink\</groupId\> \<artifactId\>tink\</artifactId\> \<version\>1.3.0-rc1\</version\> \</dependency\>
    

    Android with Gradle

    dependencies {
      compile 'com.google.crypto.tink:tink-android:1.3.0-rc1'
    }
    

    What's next

    🚀 There may be a few more release candidates before we get to the final 1.3.0 release. It should be out by the end of July 2019.