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6 1.1 riastrad ============
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8 1.1 riastrad Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption,
9 1.1 riastrad decryption, signatures, password hashing and more.
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11 1.1 riastrad It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable
12 1.1 riastrad fork of [NaCl](http://nacl.cr.yp.to/), with a compatible API, and an
13 1.1 riastrad extended API to improve usability even further.
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15 1.1 riastrad Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build
16 1.1 riastrad higher-level cryptographic tools.
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18 1.1 riastrad Sodium supports a variety of compilers and operating systems,
19 1.1 riastrad including Windows (with MingW or Visual Studio, x86 and x64), iOS, Android,
20 1.1 riastrad as well as Javascript and Webassembly.
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22 1.1 riastrad ## Documentation
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24 1.1 riastrad The documentation is available on Gitbook:
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26 1.1 riastrad * [libsodium documentation](https://download.libsodium.org/doc/) -
27 1.1 riastrad online, requires Javascript.
28 1.1 riastrad * [offline documentation](https://www.gitbook.com/book/jedisct1/libsodium/details)
29 1.1 riastrad in PDF, MOBI and ePUB formats.
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31 1.1 riastrad ## Integrity Checking
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33 1.1 riastrad The integrity checking instructions (including the signing key for libsodium)
34 1.1 riastrad are available in the [installation](https://download.libsodium.org/doc/installation/index.html#integrity-checking)
35 1.1 riastrad section of the documentation.
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37 1.1 riastrad ## Community
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39 1.1 riastrad A mailing-list is available to discuss libsodium.
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41 1.1 riastrad In order to join, just send a random mail to `sodium-subscribe` {at}
42 1.1 riastrad `pureftpd` {dot} `org`.
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44 1.1 riastrad ## License
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46 1.1 riastrad [ISC license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license).
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