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Show HN: Dhole – PHP/JS Cryptography for Humans (and Furries)
- some_furry 7y agoIf you look carefully, you'll notice I'm not really implementing my own crypto; rather, I'm wrapping libsodium. This is a good thing! If you're wondering "why?": I've got a bunch of side-projects planned in 2020/2021 that require secure, easy-to-use cryptography. I decided to write a wrapper around libsodium to alleviate a lot of UI/UX design warts: 1. Libsodium forces you to explicitly generate a nonce randomly. 2. Libsodium works on arbitrary byte arrays or strings (depending on language), rather than typed objects. Rather than just building an in-house wrapper library and keeping it to myself, I decided to open source it and share it with anyone who finds it useful.