Consider aead::Aead as an alternative to (or building block for) Cipher

[tarcieri]

The aead crate provides abstractions for AEAD algorithms (including no_std-friendly ones) with several implementations including adapters for the AEAD algorithms in ring.

Aside from the rekey method, it seems like it's close to a drop-in replacement for the existing Cipher trait.

[mcginty]

Thanks for the issue @tarcieri!

These types should hardly be touched except for the rare cases where people need to implement their own providers of crypto algorithms not provided by snow itself, so I'm not sure if I can currently justify the extra dependency in my head, especially if only Cipher gets this treatment, and we don't also start relying on RngCore to replace Random, etc.

[fogti]

Currently, snow already depends on crates which depend on aead, so this wouldn't really change the amount of crates pulled in.

[tarcieri]

There is one problem with using the aead crate's traits for Snow's purposes right now: they aren't object safe, but easily could be with some small changes.

[fogti]

that specific issue with aead is fixed now.