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HomeSecurity & IdentityCrypto & web security librarieslibsodium

libsodium

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Easy-to-use, hard-to-misuse modern crypto library (NaCl fork) with bindings for most languages.

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14.1k

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1.9k

Last commit

3d ago

Nov 8, 2026

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Created

2013

13y ago

Popularity score

76/100

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