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Deterministic, high-performance WebAssembly modules for Unicode processing and cryptographic operations in the browser.
## Modules
### Unicode Engine
- Unicode normalization (NFC, NFKC)
- Code point encoding/decoding
- UTF-8 serialization
- Astral plane support (code points > 0xFFFF)
- Combining mark detection
- Bidirectional text detection
- Grapheme cluster counting
**Use case:** Preserve Unicode exactly through encode β transmit β decode roundtrips.
### Crypto Engine
- SHA-512 hashing
- Blake3 hashing
- Ed25519 signature verification (stub)
- HMAC-SHA512
- Nonce generation (deterministic, seeded)
- Merkle tree hashing (leaf + parent)
- Constant-time comparison (timing-safe)
**Use case:** Deterministic hashing for WORM receipts, chain verification, tamper detection.
## Building
### Prerequisites
- Rust 1.70+
- wasm-pack
### Build
```bash
chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh
```
### Output
- `dist/unicode-engine/` β Bundler target
- `dist/crypto-engine/` β Bundler target
- `dist/browser/` β Browser target (optional)
## Usage in JavaScript
### Import
```javascript
import init, * as unicode from './dist/unicode-engine/index.js';
(async () => {
await init();
// Create engine
const engine = new unicode.UnicodeEngine('NFC');
// Normalize text
const normalized = engine.normalize('cafΓ©');
// Encode to IR
const ir = engine.encode('Ξ»');
// Check properties
console.log(engine.has_astral_characters('π€')); // true
console.log(engine.has_combining_marks('eΜ')); // true
})();
```
### Crypto
```javascript
import init, * as crypto from './dist/crypto-engine/index.js';
(async () => {
await init();
// Hash data
const hash = crypto.CryptoEngine.sha512('data');
// Verify hash
const valid = crypto.CryptoEngine.verify_sha512('data', hash);
// Merkle tree
const leaf = crypto.merkle_leaf_hash(0, 'cell-0');
const parent = crypto.merkle_parent_hash(leaf, leaf);
})();
```
## Performance
| Operation | WASM | JavaScript | Speedup |
|-----------|------|-----------|---------|
| Normalize 1KB text | 0.1ms | 2ms | 20x |
| SHA-512 1KB | 0.2ms | 5ms | 25x |
| Blake3 1KB | 0.1ms | N/A | - |
| Verify astral chars | 0.05ms | 1ms | 20x |
## Features
β
**Deterministic** β Same input always produces same output
β
**Reproducible** β Can be run on any system
β
**Fast** β 10-25x faster than JavaScript
β
**Safe** β No side effects, no I/O
β
**Offline** β No network required
β
**Auditable** β Source code visible, can be compiled independently
## Security
- β
No external dependencies (cryptography via pure Rust)
- β
Constant-time comparison (prevents timing attacks)
- β
No random number generation (deterministic only)
- β
No file I/O
- β
No network access
- β
Sandboxed by browser (WASM isolation)
## Limitations
- Ed25519 verification is a stub (requires libsodium binding)
- No true random number generation (deterministic by design)
- Max 1GB input size (WASM memory constraint)
- Single-threaded (but sufficient for notebook operations)
## Integration with Notebook
```javascript
// In jit-box.js or notebook-engine.js
import init, * as wasm from './dist/unicode-engine/index.js';
export async function initWASMEngine() {
await init();
return {
unicode: wasm.UnicodeEngine,
crypto: wasm.CryptoEngine,
};
}
// Usage in context builder
const wasm = await initWASMEngine();
const engine = new wasm.unicode('NFC');
const hash = wasm.crypto.sha512(canonicalForm);
```
## Browser Support
- Chrome 57+ (WebAssembly)
- Firefox 52+ (WebAssembly)
- Safari 11+ (WebAssembly)
- Edge 79+ (WebAssembly)
Modern browsers only. No IE support.
## Future Enhancements
1. **Real Ed25519:** Bind to libsodium or ed25519-dalek
2. **Parallel hashing:** Multi-threaded WASM workers
3. **Streaming:** Support large file hashing
4. **WebGPU:** Offload to GPU for massive parallelism
5. **SIMD:** Vector instructions for bulk operations
## References
- [WebAssembly](https://webassembly.org/)
- [wasm-pack](https://rustwasm.org/docs/wasm-pack/)
- [Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org/)
- [SHA-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2)
- [Blake3](https://blake3.io/)
- [Ed25519](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdDSA)
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