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A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2017-02-14 · latest 2025-04-05

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  1. …something with signatures, key exchange and encryption, I'd recommend starting with libhydrogen: https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen
    comment by jedisct1 · 2025-04-05 · in Intuiting TLS
  2. don't forget https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen for microcontrollers
    comment by olabyne · 2023-09-15 · in Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
  3. This seems extremely similar to https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen -- X25519 and Gimli. (well, and the name...). It also appears to pull from its test suite and aim for compatibility in some ways.
    comment by lvh · 2022-11-16 · in Liblithium: A lightweight and portable cryptography library
  4. Are you possibly thinking of libhydrogen? https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen
    comment by frompdx · 2021-08-31 · in Ask HN: Are there small alternatives to libsodium/NaCL
  5. …is also libhydrogen [1] which is a "small, easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse cryptographic library". [1] https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/blob/master/README.m...
    comment by voctor · 2020-05-17 · in Tink – Cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly
  6. This is a historic API. libhydrogen's API is different: https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/wiki/Secret-key-encr...
    comment by jedisct1 · 2019-04-19 · in AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption
  7. …"a single file to add to the project", and still split your code in smaller, readable files. See https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen for example. It's a single-file crypto library from an application perspective, but everything was not…
    comment by jedisct1 · 2019-01-06 · in Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation using tomcrypt
  8. …takes a different approach, and supports an optional "message id" (which is AD in disguise) https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/wiki/Secret-key-encr...
    comment by jedisct1 · 2018-04-04 · in Cryptographic Right Answers
  9. It's almost 2018, use libhydrogen: https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/wiki/Password-hashin...
    comment by jedisct1 · 2017-12-28 · in The scrypt parameters
  10. Have you had a chance to look at libhydrogen? https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2017-09-22 · in Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight
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    LibH: a tiny crypto library made from 25519 and a permutation (libsodium author)
    story by baby · 2017-07-12 · 0 comments
  12. …pass the 3rd round of the CAESAR competition. But the same idea can still be applied to ChaCha. See https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/wiki and https://github.com/codahale/xsalsa20poly1305 for example.
    comment by jedisct1 · 2017-05-29 · in AES-GCM-SIV: AES-GCM with some forgiveness
  13. …link was posted again today. For something new, you may want to look at its little brother instead: https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/wiki Anyway, version 1.0.12 will be released soon.
    comment by jedisct1 · 2017-03-05 · in The Sodium crypto library
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    Libhydrogen – A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library
    story by conductor · 2017-03-04 · 0 comments
  15. …to replace libsodium, but the libsodium2 API may resemble more to it than the current one. [1] https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen
    comment by jedisct1 · 2017-02-14 · in Show HN: Monocypher: a small, easy to use crypto library