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============
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Sodium is an 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, Android,
as well as Javascript and Webassembly.
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## Documentation
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The documentation is available on Gitbook and built from the
[libsodium-doc ](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-doc ) repository:
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* [libsodium documentation ](https://doc.libsodium.org ) - online, requires Javascript.
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## Integrity Checking
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The integrity checking instructions (including the signing key for libsodium)
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are available in the [installation ](https://download.libsodium.org/doc/installation#integrity-checking )
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section of the documentation.
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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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## Contributors
### Code Contributors
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This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [[Contribute ](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/graphs/contributors )].
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< a href = "https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/graphs/contributors" > < img src = "https://opencollective.com/libsodium/contributors.svg?width=890&button=false" / > < / a >
### Financial Contributors
Become a financial contributor and help us sustain our community. [[Contribute ](https://opencollective.com/libsodium/contribute )]
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#### Individuals <a href="https://opencollective.com/libsodium"><img src="https://opencollective.com/libsodium/individuals.svg?width=890"></a>
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#### Organizations
Support this project with your organization. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [[Contribute ](https://opencollective.com/libsodium/contribute )]
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## License
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[ISC license ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license ).
