libsodium VS ctf

Compare libsodium vs ctf and see what are their differences.

libsodium

A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library. (by jedisct1)
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libsodium ctf
30 11
11,927 1,743
- 0.5%
8.7 2.5
3 days ago about 1 year ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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libsodium

Posts with mentions or reviews of libsodium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.
  • Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 18 Sep 2023
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 16 Sep 2023
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
    Libsodium has been around for a while, so probably the reason it was posted is that version 1.0.19 was just released: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/releases/tag/1.0.19-RE...

    Updated NuGet and Swift packages are going to be uploaded soon.

    AEGIS-128X and 256X are not there yet, but if you need them, they are available in libaegis: https://github.com/jedisct1/libaegis

    All the code from libaegis will eventually be merged into libsodium, including the incremental update API which is especially useful for TLS.

  • Libsodium 1.0.19 Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
  • FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 June 2023
    34 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2023
  • Libsodium Still Relevant and Maintained?
    1 project | /r/crypto | 21 May 2023
    To version the dependency you can check the current stable tree in git and save the date and git hash.
  • I created an encrypted command line jounal
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 22 Apr 2023
    To address both of these vulnerabilities, you should instead use a library that handles these sharp edges for you. A well received library in the security and cryptography communities is libsodium. It has high level functions that handle password hashing and data encryption for you, reducing the risk that you introduce vulnerabilities in your code, such as you have here.
  • Why can't I burn scam tokens by sending them to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD?
    1 project | /r/ethereum | 13 Apr 2023
    In general, cryptography is really hard. So for example, an attacker could construct a message that if you signed would leak information, ie it reduces the space of possible keys such that it can be brute forced. I’m not entirely sure if you could do that with a transfer function. But it’s certainly possible. That said, there are a ton of smart devs trying to prevent that as well so I’m not assuming anything here. But prudent practices are likely good to follow. Be very careful calling anything from your cold wallet etc. Use disposable keys for anything a bit risky. I took a sec to google an example and this is the closest I could find. https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/issues/170
  • Some questions from a noob Rustacean
    1 project | /r/rust | 17 Mar 2023
    Hi everyone! I'm learning Rust while on a break between jobs, and as I'm particularly interested in interfacing Rust with C and in cryptography, I've decided to write a wrapper around libsodium (https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium) in Rust. This is purely a hobby project and I probably won't ever release it as there are already some open-source Rust bindings available for the library.
  • Librandombytes – a public domain library for generating randomness
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2023
    Can anyone recommend between Librandombytes and libsodium ramdombytes?

    https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/tree/master/src/libsod...

ctf

Posts with mentions or reviews of ctf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.
  • Audio Steganography
    1 project | /r/securityCTF | 18 Dec 2022
    Audio can contain dial tones, or it can contain binary/morse code on some particular frequency, or it's not really "audio" but radio-transmission which needs to be decoded, or the audio can contain sounds of keyboard typing or even 3d printer head moving (like https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/tree/master/2020-05-10-spam-and-flags-teaser/3d_printer ), or maybe audio has multiple sources interleaved and you need to separate them and one has the flag, or maybe the audio file itself has specific format and some information can be passed there. There are infinite possibilities and it's impossible to say anything without analysing the file.
  • Failing to understand a flag
    1 project | /r/securityCTF | 18 Nov 2022
    It's hard to say anything without actually seeing the page. Was there something inside the CSS files? You can do some crazy stuff there :) You can also do some fancy stuff like bypassing CSRF with CSS injection like in: https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/tree/master/2018-01-20-insomnihack/web_css
  • CTF Question - reverse engineering keyboard Morse code
    1 project | /r/securityCTF | 18 Oct 2022
  • Question about ECDSA
    2 projects | /r/cryptography | 24 Jun 2022
  • Stuck on a forensics challenge
    1 project | /r/CTFlearn | 23 Jun 2022
    One thing that immediately comes into mind is that archives are "weird", and an archive file can be also a totally different type of file at the same time. Just to clarify what I mean see: https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/blob/master/2016-04-15-plaid-ctf/web_pixelshop/README.md and specifically the magic file https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/blob/master/2016-04-15-plaid-ctf/web_pixelshop/exploit.png this is totally valid PNG file but at the same time it's also totally valid ZIP file with PHP shell inside.
  • Initial impact report about this week's EdDSA Double-PubKey Oracle attack in 40 affected crypto libs
    6 projects | /r/crypto | 18 Jun 2022
    Funny part is that even in CTF challenges made around this problem challenge authors were introducing some intentional bugs to account for this scenario, because they thought it would be too unrealistic otherwise :D See for example: https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/tree/master/2018-12-08-hxp/crypto_uff
  • Reduced Round AES CTR Attacks
    2 projects | /r/cryptography | 7 Apr 2022
    See: https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/tree/master/2016-03-12-0ctf/peoples_square and also https://github.com/TFNS/writeups/tree/master/2020-06-05-DefenitCTF/spn (this one is not AES but some toy SPN, but the idea is exactly the same and maybe easier to understand)
  • Hey I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to post a challenge, a challenge with a reward
    1 project | /r/cryptography | 20 Nov 2021
    If it's some serious interesting cryptography (just to give you an example: https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/tree/master/2019-11-02-google-ctf/fractorization ), then perhaps consider talking to some CTF team to feature your challenge during an upcoming CTF
  • Help with factorizing n=p*q in an vulnerable RSA implementation
    1 project | /r/cryptography | 19 Sep 2021
    Also what you need doesn't require that much code, it's very similar to: https://github.com/p4-team/ctf/tree/master/2017-09-02-tokyo/crypto_rsa
  • Cryptopals 2:12 - What real-world application of crypto does the solution actually break?
    1 project | /r/crypto | 16 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libsodium and ctf you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

CTFd - CTFs as you need them

Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

RootTheBox - A Game of Hackers (CTF Scoreboard & Game Manager)

mbedTLS - An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.

ed25519-unsafe-libs - List of unsafe ed25519 signature libs

libhydrogen - A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.

pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

pwndbg - Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering with GDB Made Easy

Bcrypt - Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers

pwndra - A collection of pwn/CTF related utilities for Ghidra