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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by alexjeffrey on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:52PM (#5334892)
that's a crying shame - the world needs a secure-by-default and easy-to-use crypto library. Someday...
Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by tptacek on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:52PM (#5334898)
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Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by tomjen3 on Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:16AM (#5336547)
You might want to subtitle it but x is not it.

I just looked at NaCL. It only works if both sides use it, but data at rest isn't the big problem. Servers are.

And this doesn't work if you want to make a replacement for ssh.

Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by dsl on Thursday March 07, 2013 @03:24AM (#5336711)
Are you just repeating words you found elsewhere in the thread? You'll be hard pressed to find a crypto system that doesn't require implementations at both ends. NaCL is the library used to implement DNSCrypt, which is pretty much ssh for your DNS queries.
Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by bascule on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:21PM (#5335584)
That's the goal of Sodium. It builds on Windows.
Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by huhtenberg on Thursday March 07, 2013 @04:13AM (#5336824)
Any details?

I don't see anything in a Github repo to support this, not with the Microsoft tools. Perhaps it builds under Cygwin and similar, but that's hardly qualifies as "builds on Windows" for practical purposes.

Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by jedisct1 on Thursday March 07, 2013 @04:31AM (#5336868)
Build scripts for iOS, Android and Windows (using MingW under MSYS):

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/tree/master/dist-build

The end result on Windows is a native DLL library.

Re:Introducing Sodium, a new cryptographic library by huhtenberg on Thursday March 07, 2013 @04:48AM (#5336900)
Thanks, I see. Any plans to add static lib generation for Microsoft tools (an nmake script) or is there some gcc-isms in the code? DLLs aren't exactly the most desirable arrangement in a heck of a lot of cases.