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A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

59 mentions on Hacker News by 51 people: 10 stories, 49 comments · first 2013-03-07 · latest 2023-09-15

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    Libsodium 0.5 released, easy-to-use high-speed encryption
    story by dsl · 2014-05-14 · 0 comments
  2. …to be the best way to currently wipe out sensitive data is to implement something like in libsodium https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsod... 1- Try to use SecureZeroMemory() on Windows 2- Use memcpy_s() if available,…
    comment by doe88 · 2014-04-14 · in TrueCrypt Security Assessment [pdf]
  3. …wrote his own crypto library, NaCL: http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ It's been packaged up as libsodium: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium That said, even DJB doesn't trust himself to write bug-free C code: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.…
    comment by grosskur · 2014-04-12 · in Ask HN: Negative OpenSSL sentiments
  4. …free for FOSS despite patents, and more understandable for mortals). [0] http://curvecp.org/ [1] https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium [2] http://nacl.cace-project.eu/box.html [3] http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/05/how-to-choos…
    comment by nly · 2014-02-28 · in TLS Symmetric Crypto
  5. …does not do the same thing as NaCl. NaCl: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9234738 libsodium: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsod...
    comment by eliteraspberrie · 2014-02-26 · in How to safely generate a random number
  6. Most 3rd parties are building on libsodium, not the Nacl code: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium
    comment by zdw · 2014-01-24 · in DNSSEC surpasses 50% of root domains
  7. …nobody really wanted to fix it until Sodium came along. [1] https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html [2] https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium [3] https://github.com/thejh/node-nacl [4] https://github.com/tonyg/js-nacl
    comment by drostie · 2013-07-04 · in DecryptoCat
  8. …on what you need (I can't say how good these are): http://www.keyczar.org http://nacl.cr.yp.to https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium http://www.gnupg.org
    comment by Osmium · 2013-05-27 · in You are dangerously bad at cryptography
  9. Build scripts for iOS, Android and Windows (using MingW under MSYS): https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/tree/master/dist-build The end result on Windows is a native DLL library.
    comment by jedisct1 · 2013-03-07 · in Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library