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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by tptacek on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:51PM (#5334891)
Hate to keep doing this to you† but you don't need anything like NaCL to solve that problem; just use bcrypt. Every development environment has a bcrypt.

Good example of a flaw mitigated by NaCL: the CBC padding oracle attack.

† Caveat: no I don't

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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by alexjeffrey on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:56PM (#5334926)
OK you caught me - I don't have any relevant examples :)
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