Questions tagged [libsodium]
"The sodium crypto library". A cryptographic multi-language-library with support for many modern cryptographic primitives, that is a fork of the NaCl library. The library focuses on providing easy-to-use cryptographic primitives.
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Ed25519 and sealed boxes libsodium
Accidentally used ed25519 public key to create libsoidum_sealed_box. Is there any way to decrypt the data if the private key ed25519 is known?
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How to read libsodium's scalar from integer/bytes or NTL:zz
Hi I am new to lib sodium, may I ask that is it possible to get scalar of ristretto255 from integer/bytes or NTL:zz?
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implementing pedersen commtiment using lib sodium
Hi I want to implement pedersen commitment ontop of lib sodium
Below is what I am trying to do:
comm1: m1G+r1H
comm2: m2G+r2H
comm3: (m1+m2)G+(r1+r2)H
comm4: comm1+comm2
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Can I use Libsodium crypto_box_easy for signing with 32 byte keypair?
I have a chat system where multiple clients communicate securely using Libsodium authenticated encryption.
Every client have their own 32 byte key pair. If two clients want to communicate they first ...
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ECDH between identical public keys
We are using libsodium and regarding exchanging secrets we would like to use the so-called crypto_box (https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/public-key_cryptography/authenticated_encryption). Under the ...
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What good elliptic curve uses a scalar field the size of the Ristretto255 group?
I am implementing Bulletproofs over Ristretto255. (I am using libsodium, so can't switch to another Elliptic Curve implementation.)
I need to implement zero knowledge verification of elliptic curve ...
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Check if pubkey belongs to twisted Edwards25519
I want to check if some pubkey belongs to twisted edwards25519 (I guess this is used for ed25519 ?) The problem is that I have in theory some valid pubkeys like:
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Simplistic double ratchet implementation
Would something like this be a reasonable way to implement the double ratchet with libsodium? The sodium port that I'm using is quite limited and does not offer a ...
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Why is there a slight mismatch most of the time in X25519 private keys depending on functions used, but public keys always match (same seed for both)?
I'm trying to wrap my head around going from a seed to a SigningKey, and also obtaining a ...
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Does the libsodium sealedbox provide forward secrecy?
I am using sodiumoxide, a Rust binding to libsodium that provides a function named sealedbox that requires the receiver's public key. However, they also mention that the message is encrypted with an ...
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How feasible is it to guess the private key of libsodium by taking into account generation time?
So suppose you are doing this locally (so no network noise), and know the exact specifics of your processor too. Is it feasible to figure out the private key (while having access to the public-key) ...
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Disparity between PyNaCl docs and libsodium docs
So if we look here, it shows that libsodium uses three 3 different algorithms for this, which sounds weird to me, cause nothing indicates that anything besides Curve25519 is used in those specific ...
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Convert sr25519 key pair to Curve25519 key pair
I'm trying to implement public key encryption that support key pairs generated by different libraries:
Curve25519 - libsodium cryptoBoxKeypair()
Ed25519 - Google ...
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Implement deterministic authenticated encryption using libsodium
Note: this is my first question on stack exchange, let me know if you miss some details to answer and I will edit the question accordingly
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I'm willing to create a git encryption tool (...
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Generate secp256k1 ECC key pair with libsodium
I'm new to crypto and I want to generate a key pair, in C, which would be the equivalent of openssl ecparam -name secp256k1 -genkey -out ec-priv.pem.
I love ...
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Is CMS for data still relevant
I have an application where I need to store small to moderate amounts of data in a symmetrically encrypted form. For various reasons, CMS with an AuthEnvelopedData seems to tick all the requirements.
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One way shared key encryption with NaCl - is it safe to generate a throwaway keypair for the encrypting party
So, I need users to be able to pass me information that no one else can read, so I've generated a secret key. Using NaCl I create a key pair from that secret key and I share the public key of the key ...
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How do I convert an ed25519 scalar into x25519 for encryption?
In a system I'm working with, we're using Schnorr signatures with scalars generated with libsodium's crypto_core_ed25519_scalar_random.
My goal is to use the ...
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Using crypto_sign then crypto_box_seal for anonymous messages
If you have a message M and you want the sender (alice) to be anonymous to everyone but the recipient (bob), is it ok to do?
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How to find out the block size of Xchacha20 in Libsodium?
I heard that Xchacha20 works like a block cipher so that even if it wants to encrypt one byte, it will do the work of at least one block. So technically it works similar to a block cipher in counter ...
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Using a nonce as a salt for key derivation
I'm currently playing a bit with PyNaCl (python binding to libsodium) and I want to use the secretbox for symmetric encryption between two parties, which means they both must know the (in my case ...
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Negotiating a session key, when only one public-key is exchanged via QR Code
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I want to create a secure channel between a server and a client. It is only important that the client can verify the identity of the server, not the other way around.
In my special case, an ...
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Any gotchas when deriving a symmetric key from two seeds?
Consider a connection protocol where, after jumping through several other hoops, Alice and Bob know each others' public keys; and they now want to do a RSA-handshake-kind-of-thing to come up with a ...
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Can libsodium's X25519 encryption construction be generalized?
It is my understanding that libsodium's sealed_box is based on X25519, a Diffie-Hellman function: By combining the X25519 key agreement with a symmetric cipher and having a recipient derive the ...
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What happened to Poly1305AES? Is it obsolete?
I've been told that Poly1305AES is a great choice of MAC for constrained (embedded) environments. I'd checked out DJB's writing on it briefly, and have to say that I found its simplicity likeable, ...
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Should I use NaCl or libsodium for my application?
While looking for end-to-end encryption for my app users, I stumbled upon NaCl and libsodium. I am unsure from a security perspective which of these implementations I should use for my cross-platform ...
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What does "crypto_box" actually mean in libsodium and NaCl?
I cannot find what "crypto_box" actually means. In general, and in specific cases, what does "box" do? I know that libsodium is authenticated encryption, but GPG is not. "Box" makes me think the ...
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Proof possession of private key in libsodium
I would like to proof that I am in possession of private key sk for public key pk using ...
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NACL with public key encryption and authentication
As suggested in this answer i can use nacl for public key encryption with:
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is forward secrecy irrelevant for non-streaming applications?
I asked a question yesterday about the Keybase key model and got no answers, unfortunately. Let me rephrase the question to make it clearer: in the case, if 2 users just want to send each other low-...
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Verifying the ownership of curve25519 public keys
Let's say we have a group of users, authenticated by a server that providers the service, communicating on a secure channel (e.g. over HTTPS/TLS) and each user has a corresponding curve25519 key pair. ...
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Would XOR'ing two Argon2 keys add extra security?
When a user registers on the app, they need to provide a password they create and we provide them with a randomly generated passphrase (e.g. Apple Cat Ladder Fire). We then use Libsodium's ...
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Authenticated encryption using libsodium's crypto_box_curve25519xsalsa20poly1305
It seems that crypto_box_easy, generates a random nonce and appends it to the cipher text in libsodium.
I understand using the same nonce with the same key can be ...
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Is it OK to just hash a symmetric key to derive an authentication key?
I'm using xsalsa20poly1305 for encryption in my program from libsodium. The recommended size for chunks is 4 kB. In that case, poly1305 will have authentication only for the the individual 4k chunks. ...
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Key clamping in curve25519 not evident in generated key's binary representation
I understand with curve25519 that the private key for secret.box is clamped...
I understand that this clamping process to clear ...
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Key exchange and authentication using libhydrogen
I have been able to exchange session keys on two devices using Libhydrogen's Key exchange using the N variant method. I also want to authenticate both devices to have some protection against the Man ...
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Which version of ChaCha is more secure?
Which version of ChaCha is more secure?
XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF
ChaCha20-IETF-Poly1305
ChaCha20-Poly1305
I am looking for 256bit strength for large datasets.
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Using ECDH for encryption and decryption [duplicate]
I'm playing with cryptography and its use with typescript on one side and PHP on the other side. Now I'm looking for routines that can encrypt and decrypt with ecdh's private and shared keys. Any ...
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specific scenario question relating to using NACL crypto_box in a protocol
Scenario 1: SenderA sends message1 to ReceiverB
message1 is encrypted using NACL crypto_box using SenderA secret key and ReceiverB public key.
we understand that the NACL crypto_box authenticator ...
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Using public-key signature instead of having API key
I am designing an application that will need an API key. At first I believed that generating a long, random token would be secure enough (say 32 chars string that includes 0-9, a-z and A-Z), and then ...
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Representations of secret keys on Curve25519
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-josefsson-tls-curve25519-06#appendix-A.2 gives the following as a secret key / public key combo:
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How can I follow the validation and verification recommendations of the NaCl (sodium) secretbox library?
I was advised to use crypto_secretbox_xsalsa20poly1305 due to its simplicity and because it's safe against timing attacks. I'm reading the secretbox tutorial, and ...
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Does libsodium sealed box leak key ids?
I am using python and libnacl, which is a libsodium wrapper, to develop an application where users can deposit encrypted data.
Alice uses ...
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libsodium vs gnupg curve25519 compatibility
I am trying to create deterministic GPG keys based on cryptosteel. I have implemented a library for (de)serializing PGP packets and am now trying to use keys generated in libsodium for import in GPG.
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Verion of crypto_box() which doesn't allow the sender to decrypt previously sent messages
Libsodium's crypto_box() family of functions allow the sender to send messages using its public/private keypair knowing the receiver's public key, and allow the ...
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Using a LibSodium CryptoBox KeyPair with `crypto_sign`
More of a theoretical question...
Taking a system where Lib Sodium has been used for asymmetric encryption, where a "crypto_box_keypair" has been generated, and the public key has been distributed to ...
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On Linux, seeding /dev/urandom does not unblock /dev/random, causing libsodium to hang? [closed]
Edit for clarity: Does the "standard" test for initialization of the Linux non-blocking entropy pool, by attempting to read 1 byte from /dev/random, ignore seeding of /dev/urandom from file at boot, ...
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libsodium stream encryption [closed]
I am new to cryptography, I have used OpenSSL and its aes-256-cfb cipher before to do stream encryption, which works great. Now I am going to try ...
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Verification of HMAC in libsodium
libsodium verifies that the HMAC is correct with the following code:
return crypto_verify_32(h, correct) | (-(h == correct)) | sodium_memcmp(correct, h, 32);
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Is it possible to derive the recipient's public key from libsodium's crypto_box?
Libsodium has "crypto_box_seal" which according to the documentation is used to "anonymously send messages to a recipient given its public key.", which hides the sender.
But Is it possible for Eve to ...
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