[cryptography] Sodium: NaCl repackaged for portability/ease-of-use

[Tony Arcieri]

Hello crypto-people,

Frank Denis just announced Sodium, a fork of NaCl containing only the
reference C code, packaged using a standard autotools build system:

http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/03/06/announcing-sodium-a-new-cryptographic-library/

NaCl has traditionally been hard to use because it targets *IX exclusively
and the assembly versions of the various algorithms are not PIC yet. For
this reason there are a lot of issues making NaCl work portably (e.g.
across 32-bit/64-bit platforms, let alone Windows)

Sodium is designed to be portable, easy to compile/package, and it even
works on Windows!

Some might think this undermines some of the original goals of NaCl,
however djb has suggested it as an option in the past:

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:27 PM, D. J. Bernstein <djb at cr.yp.to> wrote:

>    * More language support. The real work here is making everything
>      PIC. Of course, if what matters is the API rather than speed, then
>      achieving PIC is easy: just remove the asm.


-- 
Tony Arcieri

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