README.adoc

nim-libsodium

Nim wrapper for the libsodium library

Features

• Wrap libsodium and expose only memory-safe entities

• Follow libsodium naming convention for most functions

• Tested on Linux, MacOS and windows

• Basic unit tests

• No homemade crypto

Usage

Refer to the official libsodium documentation

and the generated documentation using nim doc.

Also, the structure of libsodium/sodium.nim follows the order of https://doc.libsodium.org/

sudo apt-get install libsodium18
nimble install libsodium

import libsodium.sodium
import libsodium.sodium_sizes

let
  msg = "hello and goodbye"
  (pk, sk) = crypto_box_keypair()
  nonce = randombytes(crypto_box_NONCEBYTES())
  ciphertext = crypto_box_easy(msg, nonce, pk, sk)

Contributing

Testing and PRs are welcome.