tink-crypto/tink

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform open source cryptographic library from Google that provides secure, easy-to-use APIs for encryption, signing, and key management, designed to be hard to misuse. This original repository has been made read-only after the project split into separate language-specific repositories under the tink-crypto GitHub organization.

Use cases

• encrypt and decrypt data with safe defaults
• sign and verify messages without crypto expertise
• manage cryptographic keys safely
• add AEAD encryption to a Java or Go application
• avoid common cryptographic implementation pitfalls
• implement hybrid encryption or MACs in production systems

When to choose

• you need battle-tested, misuse-resistant cryptographic APIs in Java, C++, Go, Python, or Obj-C
• your team lacks deep cryptography expertise but needs secure primitives
• you want consistent crypto APIs across multiple languages and platforms

When to avoid

• you need the actively maintained versions - use the split repositories at github.com/tink-crypto instead
• you need the JavaScript/TypeScript implementation, which was only alpha and slated for removal
• you need low-level control over cryptographic primitives or custom algorithms
• you require a library still developed in this monolithic repository

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

cryptography security auth security developer-tools privacy jvm cpp go python cross-platform windows crypto-api key-management encryption digital-signatures google misuse-resistant multi-language archived-repo android macos linux

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