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Gitbook documentation for libsodium
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Gitbook documentation for libsodium
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-doc
- Owner: jedisct1
- License: isc
- Created: 2014-06-29T04:55:36.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-23T22:46:10.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-24T11:55:36.299Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: cryptography
- Language: Shell
- Homepage: https://libsodium.org
- Size: 1.29 MB
- Stars: 166
- Watchers: 23
- Forks: 159
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# The Sodium crypto library (libsodium)
Sodium is a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing, and more.
It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, and packageable fork of [NaCl](http://nacl.cr.yp.to/), with a compatible but extended API to improve usability even further.
Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.
Sodium is cross-platform and cross-language. It runs on many compilers and operating systems, including Windows (with MinGW or Visual Studio, x86 and x86\_64), iOS, and Android. JavaScript and WebAssembly versions are also available and fully supported. Furthermore, bindings for all common programming languages are available and well-supported.
The design choices emphasize security and ease of use. But despite the emphasis on high security, primitives are faster across-the-board than most implementations.
## Downloading libsodium
[libsodium 1.0.20-stable](https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/) is the latest version.
- [Tarballs and pre-compiled binaries](https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/)
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium)
- [Documentation](https://doc.libsodium.org)
## Mailing list
A mailing list is available to discuss libsodium.
To join, just send a random email to `sodium-subscribe` {at} `pureftpd`{dot}`org`.
## License
[ISC license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license).
See the `LICENSE` file for details.
## Thanks\!
Sodium is developed by volunteers. We would like to especially thank the following companies and organizations for their contribution:
- [Paragonie Initiative Enterprise](https://paragonie.com/), who donated a Raspberry Pi to ensure that the library works perfectly on this hardware. Thanks\!
- [Private Internet Access](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com), who sponsored a [complete security audit](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/libsodium-audit-results/). This is amazing, thanks\!
- [Maximilian Blochberger](https://github.com/blochberger) and Joshua Small, who both generously donated $100. This will help cover the infrastructure costs a lot. Thanks again, Max and Joshua\!
People who designed the primitives and wrote implementations the library is based on can be found in the [AUTHORS](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jedisct1/libsodium/master/AUTHORS) file. This project wouldn’t exist without them.
Also, a huge “thank you” to people and companies who contributed bindings for their favorite programming languages. A list can be found in the [THANKS](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jedisct1/libsodium/master/THANKS) file.
Another huge “thank you” to package maintainers who have been doing an amazing job at building packages for many distributions and operating systems.
Finally, thanks to **you** for reading this documentation and for the awesome projects you are going to build with this library\!