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sodium

A Modern and Easy-to-Use Crypto Library

v1.4.0 · Dec 16, 2024 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Bindings to 'libsodium' <https://doc.libsodium.org/>: a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. Sodium uses curve25519, a state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel Bernstein, which has become very popular after it was discovered that the NSA had backdoored Dual EC DRBG.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies cyphr encryptedRmd epitrix espadon fidelius fiery fireproof homomorpheR mmints plumber reqres rocker safer shelter shinyauthr +11 more reverse deps sodium

Version History

new 1.4.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.3.2 diff Dec 15, 2024
updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Oct 3, 2024
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.3.0 diff Nov 19, 2023
updated 1.3.0 ← 1.2.1 diff Sep 25, 2023
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Jun 10, 2022
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1 diff Oct 20, 2021
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Mar 29, 2017
updated 1.0 ← 0.4 diff Mar 17, 2017
updated 0.4 ← 0.2 diff Jul 5, 2016
updated 0.2 ← 0.1 diff Oct 17, 2015
new 0.1 Oct 10, 2015