sodium

A Modern and Easy-to-Use Crypto Library

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Bindings to 'libsodium' [https://doc.libsodium.org/]: a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. Sodium uses curve25519, a state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel Bernstein, which has become very popular after it was discovered that the NSA had backdoored Dual EC DRBG.


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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 167,938 times in the last 30 days. That's a whole lot of downloads. Somewhere, a librarian is trying to figure out why more bandwidth is needed. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 2,082 times.

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20,912 downloadsMar 23, 2025
13,163 downloadsMar 24, 2025
12,186 downloadsMar 25, 2025
12,255 downloadsMar 26, 2025
11,940 downloadsMar 27, 2025
11,853 downloadsMar 28, 2025
11,381 downloadsMar 29, 2025
11,498 downloadsMar 30, 2025
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8,511 downloadsApr 1, 2025
2,163 downloadsApr 2, 2025
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2,015 downloadsApr 4, 2025
1,608 downloadsApr 5, 2025
1,639 downloadsApr 6, 2025
2,236 downloadsApr 7, 2025
2,587 downloadsApr 8, 2025
2,867 downloadsApr 9, 2025
2,339 downloadsApr 10, 2025
2,275 downloadsApr 11, 2025
1,817 downloadsApr 12, 2025
1,732 downloadsApr 13, 2025
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2,533 downloadsApr 15, 2025
2,231 downloadsApr 16, 2025
2,275 downloadsApr 17, 2025
1,919 downloadsApr 18, 2025
1,683 downloadsApr 19, 2025
1,650 downloadsApr 20, 2025
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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 1,171,792 times in the last 365 days. This is the academic equivalent of going platinum. Except, you know, with more charts and fewer screaming fans. Congratulations! The day with the most downloads was Mar 20, 2025 with 22,285 downloads.

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