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============
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Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption,
decryption, signatures, password hashing and more.
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It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable
fork of [NaCl ](http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ ), with a compatible API, and an
extended API to improve usability even further.
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Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build
higher-level cryptographic tools.
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Sodium supports a variety of compilers and operating systems,
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including Windows (with MingW or Visual Studio, x86 and x64), iOS and Android.
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## Documentation
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The documentation is a work-in-progress, and is being written using
Gitbook:
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* [libsodium documentation ](https://download.libsodium.org/doc/ ) -
online, requires Javascript.
* [offline documentation ](https://www.gitbook.com/book/jedisct1/libsodium/details )
in PDF, MOBI and ePUB formats.
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## Integrity Checking
The integrity checking instructions (including the signing key for libsodium) are available in [this section of the documentation ](https://download.libsodium.org/doc/installation/index.html#integrity-checking ).
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## Community
A mailing-list is available to discuss libsodium.
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In order to join, just send a random mail to `sodium-subscribe` {at}
`pureftpd` {dot} `org` .
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## License
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[ISC license ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license ).