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> Hm. So you think that libsodium is going to dry up and disappear from the internet in "5 years' time"? Bear in mind that its first GitHub import was in 2013 a
by jwr 8y ago
> Hm. So you think that libsodium is going to dry up and disappear from the internet in "5 years' time"? Bear in mind that its first GitHub import was in 2013 and that it is used, and supported, by lil' guys like...uh...lemme look at this..."Google".
I didn't write about libsodium. I wrote about tools I can actually use to access my data — while writing my own utilities to decode my stuff is fun, it is not necessarily how I choose to spend my time. And the fact that something was written by HN celebrities doesn't change much — being revered in HN circles is not necessarily indicative of real-life performance and certainly not of software longevity :-)
- eropple 8y ago> I didn't write about libsodium You wrote about NaCl and "those fancy 'nacl/box' thingies?", of which libsodium is an implementation; if it's still around, "nacl/box thingies" aren't a problem. Further, libsodium is not by "HN celebrities". This is the modern standard recommended by every single crypto/security professional I know. Please don't externalize this junk onto other people who may be impressionable.