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High-level cryptography interface powered by libsodium

12 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2015-11-15 · latest 2019-07-08

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  1. …to misuse. My philosophy was, "You shouldn't even need to know what a nonce is to use it securely." https://github.com/paragonie/halite From elsewhere in the thread, PyNaCl takes a similar approach. So how dangerous "just using libsodium"…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2019-07-08 · in RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
  2. …is a libsodium wrapper for PHP projects that emphasizes ease-of-use and difficulty to misuse: https://github.com/paragonie/halite CMS Airship is a secure-by-default content management system (think WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.):…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2017-05-30 · in Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?
  3. …how? Our cryptography is certainly superior to Laravel's. https://github.com/illuminate/encryption https://github.com/paragonie/halite Beyond that, nobody has paid me to look deeper and I haven't had any reason to. > There are…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2017-03-19 · in How We Engineered CMS Airship to Be Simply Secure
  4. You're fine, I just didn't understand your question on the first pass. EDIT: https://github.com/paragonie/halite/compare/v3.1.1...3b95d85...
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-11-06 · in “Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation”
  5. Modern PHP (which LastPass almost certainly isn't using or writing) isn't really worthy of disdain. https://github.com/paragonie/halite/blob/master/src/Symmetri... (Disclaimer: My project.)
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-11-06 · in “Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation”
  6. …this advisory to oss-sec and a co-author of https://github.com/defuse/php-encryption I also wrote https://github.com/paragonie/halite which is a PHP library aims to make libsodium incredibly easy for PHP developers to get right. For…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-07-23 · in Ruining the Magic of Magento's Encryption Library
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    Show HN: Halite – A simple libsodium wrapper for PHP projects
    story by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-07-17 · 10 comments
  8. Here's a high-level library: https://github.com/paragonie/halite It uses libsodium, which only offers X25519/Ed25519 for public key crypto.
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-06-15 · in Keylength – Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation
  9. If you're wondering about our choice in primitives: https://github.com/paragonie/halite/blob/master/doc/Primitiv... No user should ever need to know these details to use it successfully.
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-05-11 · in Solve All Your Cryptography Problems in 3 Easy Steps [PHP]
  10. …business that needs to protect your assets, I can help. A brief sample of software I've written: * https://github.com/paragonie/halite - Halite: A PHP libsodium wrapper that emphasizes ease-of-use, secure defaults, and type-safety. *…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-05-02 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016)
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    story by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-03-14 · 0 comments
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    story by sarciszewski · 2015-11-15 · 0 comments