nacl-compat vs sodiumoxide

nacl-compat

Pure Rust compatibility layer for NaCl-family libraries (by RustCrypto)

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sodiumoxide

[DEPRECATED] Sodium Oxide: Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium) (by sodiumoxide)

Cryptography cryptography-library Libsodium Bindings Deprecated deprecated-library

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nacl-compat		sodiumoxide
	Project
2	Mentions	4
50	Stars	638
-	Growth	-
6.6	Activity	5.3
2 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Rust	Language	Rust
-	License	Apache License 2.0

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nacl-compat

Posts with mentions or reviews of nacl-compat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-29.

Ether: A simple symmetric-key encryption/decryption command line utility.
2 projects | /r/rust | 29 Jul 2022
Sodiumoxide has been deprecated
4 projects | /r/rust | 16 Oct 2021

Looks like RustCrypto also has something for crypto_box: https://github.com/RustCrypto/nacl-compat/tree/master/crypto_box

sodiumoxide

Posts with mentions or reviews of sodiumoxide. 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
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
My first attempt at a Rust command-line utility.
2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jan 2022

Note that sodiumoxide is deprecated: https://github.com/sodiumoxide/sodiumoxide/commit/5bb1dfd2578539b89ffb0cbea25f21f00cfb963e
Sodiumoxide has been deprecated
4 projects | /r/rust | 16 Oct 2021
Build error libsodium-sys
2 projects | /r/rust | 23 Apr 2021

Hi, thanks. It didn't.. Same issue.. I posted an issue here.. https://github.com/sodiumoxide/sodiumoxide/issues/460

What are some alternatives?

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