Sodium is an easy-to-use software library that provides a wide range of cryptographic operations including encryption, decryption, digital signatures, and secure password hashing.

It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, and packageable fork of NaCl. While maintaining API compatibility, libsodium extends functionality to improve usability and simplify the development of secure applications.

Key Features

Encryption & Decryption: Securely encrypt and decrypt data with modern algorithms.
Digital Signatures: Create and verify signatures to ensure data authenticity.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Supported on Windows (MinGW and Visual Studio, both x86 and x64), iOS, Android, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
User-Friendly API: Designed to provide all core cryptographic operations while remaining easy to integrate into your projects.

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available online. It is generated from the libsodium-doc repository and requires JavaScript for full functionality:

libsodium Documentation

Integrity Checking

For security and authenticity, please review the integrity checking instructions. These include the signing keys and methods to verify your installation:

Integrity Checking Instructions

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License

This project is distributed under the ISC license.

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