libnetkeeper

Rust implementations of network authentication algorithms used by several campus and ISP clients.

The crate keeps protocol implementations in memory-safe Rust and supports cross-compilation to targets such as MIPS and ARM.

State

The default feature set enables all supported algorithms:

• SingleNet
• Netkeeper
• Netkeeper 4
• DrCOM
• SRun3k
• GHCA
• IPClient

Documents

TBD

Develop

Install Rust with rustup. The checked-in rust-toolchain.toml selects the nightly channel and installs rustfmt and Clippy. The crate uses Rust 2024 and declares Rust 1.85 as its minimum supported compiler version.

Quality checks

cargo build --all-features
cargo test --all-features
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings

Issue or Pull Request

Open an issue for protocol questions or submit a pull request with tests for behavior changes.

Security

Several supported wire protocols require legacy primitives such as MD4, MD5, SHA-1, or AES-ECB. Use this crate only for interoperability with those protocols, not for designing new security systems.

License

libnetkeeper is licensed under GPLv3.