jedisct1/libsodium

Features

• Cryptographic Libraries - Acts as a portable, high-performance cryptographic library providing modern primitives for encryption, signing, and hashing.
• Authenticated Encryption - Provides authenticated encryption primitives to ensure both data confidentiality and integrity in a single operation.
• Data Encryption - Provides industry-standard cryptographic primitives for securing data confidentiality and integrity during storage or transmission.
• Password Hashing Utilities - Utilizes memory-hard algorithms to securely hash passwords and protect credentials against brute-force attacks.
• Side-Channel Resistant Primitives - Cryptographic operations are designed to execute in fixed time intervals to prevent side-channel attacks that leak secret information through timing variations.
• Cryptographic Randomness Providers - Harvests high-entropy data from system-level sources to provide cryptographically secure randomness for keys and nonces.
• Cryptographic Primitives - Integrates core cryptographic primitives for encryption, signing, and hashing across multiple environments.
• Key Exchange Protocols - Performs secure key exchange between parties over insecure channels.
• Memory-Hard Cryptographic Algorithms - Algorithms utilize significant amounts of RAM during computation to increase the cost and difficulty of performing large-scale brute-force attacks.
• Message Authentication Systems - Verifies data integrity using cryptographic tags to detect unauthorized tampering.
• C Implementations - Implements core cryptographic algorithms in portable C for high performance across diverse hardware architectures.
• Cryptographic Abstractions - Complex mathematical operations are hidden behind simplified interfaces to prevent implementation errors and ensure secure usage of asymmetric key exchanges.
• Digital Signature Libraries - Provides a comprehensive suite of cryptographic primitives for generating and verifying digital signatures to ensure data authenticity.
• Digital Signature Validators - Implements robust verification logic for digital signatures to ensure data integrity and sender authenticity.
• Key Derivation Protocols - Derives multiple subkeys from master keys to isolate application components and protocols.
• End-to-End Encryption - Enables public-key encryption to ensure only intended recipients can access protected content.
• Secret Encryption - Protects data confidentiality using symmetric encryption algorithms with shared secret keys.
• Build Systems - A modern, easy-to-use library for cryptographic operations.
• Cryptographic Libraries - Modern, easy-to-use library for encryption and signatures.
• Cryptography - Easy-to-use library for encryption and authentication.
• Cryptography Libraries - Opinionated and easy-to-use library based on NaCl.
• Security and Encryption - Provides robust encryption primitives.
• Security And Privacy - Easy-to-use library for encryption and authentication.
• Encryption Key Management - Offers secure utilities for key derivation and management to facilitate encrypted communication and data protection.
• Cryptographic Padding Utilities - Add padding to data blocks to reach a specific length and prevent information leakage about the original message size during sensitive cryptographic operations.

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