sodium

A Modern and Easy-to-Use Crypto Library

Last update: 20 November 2023

Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Software version identifier: 1.2.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/sodium

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.