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brew install libsodium v1.0.22 ISC

Portable C library for network communication and cryptography with a modern, audited API.

Why you might care

Libsodium provides high-level cryptographic primitives (public-key signatures, authenticated encryption, hashing) designed to be hard to misuse, unlike lower-level OpenSSL. It's a build/runtime dependency for applications and languages needing secure defaults, and works across POSIX systems and Windows.

Categories

library crypto security

Alternatives

OpenSSL libgcrypt NaCl
37.4k
30-day installs · #165
148.4k
90-day · #141
559.3k
365-day · #130

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