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libboring exists, it's called nacl.

• denton-scratch 3y ago
  As far as I'm aware, NaCl isn't like "The End Of History" for cryptographic excitement; isn't it more like a safety razor, that makes it more difficult than usual for users to do stupid things? The primitives it offers don't include stupid primitives, and you can't stich the primitives together in stupid ways. But the primitives it offers are the same primitives offered by other kits; those are not immune to 'excitement' issues.
  • Sesse__ 3y ago
    It offers higher-level primitives than e.g. OpenSSL. Instead of the primitives “ChaCha20”, “Poly1305” and “Ed25519 signature”, you get “authenticated encryption” (implemented using ChaCha20, Poly1305 and Ed25519). You do not have to know or understand how to combine the three securely, nor how to combine everything down into a single parseable stream for the other end.
    • tptacek 3y ago
      "Safety razor" sounds like the right analogy to me.
• nly 3y ago
  Libsodium you mean. Has safe cutting edge crypto, and nothing else.
  • chpatrick 3y ago
    Based on NaCL by DJB, who wrote the OP.
    • nly 3y ago
      Right, but pointing people to NaCl which is a proof of concept and not actively maintained (last version 2011) isn't helpful at this point.