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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Nonce reuse resistance
I read this article and I think the approach outlined there is very interesting for one of our use case.
We use ChaCha20 Poly1305 (via Sodium ...
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Standard serialization format for libsodium-based messages
Does anyone know of a standardized serialization format which can be (or already is) widely used for encrypted messages? For a variety of reasons (mostly complexity, age and poor support across a lot ...
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P2P Website/Database Encryption Process
Sorry if this doesn't fit the guidelines, but I believe it is a conceptual issue that is not opinion-based and can be reasonably answered in a single authoritative answer (I'm also struggling to find ...
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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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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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Resetting a shared private key
I have a scenario with a user that needs to operate on common data from multiple devices but the link to the server is often offline. Unfortunately in the environment, I trust anything not directly in ...
