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Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable
fork of NaCl (based on the latest released upstream version [nacl-20110221](http://hyperelliptic.org/nacl/nacl-20110221.tar.bz2)), with a compatible API.
The design choices, particularly in regard to the Curve25519
Diffie-Hellman function, emphasize security (whereas NIST curves
emphasize "performance" at the cost of security), and "magic
constants" in NaCl/Sodium are picked by theorems designed to maximize
security.
The same cannot be said of NIST curves, where the specific origins of
certain constants are not described by the standards.
And despite the emphasis on higher security, primitives are faster
across-the-board than most implementations of the NIST standards.
## Portability
In order to pick the fastest working implementation of each primitive,