Crate sodiumoxide
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Rust bindings to the sodium library.
Sodium is a portable implementation of Dan Bernsteins NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library
For most users, if you want public-key (asymmetric) cryptography you should use
the functions in crypto::box_ for encryption/decryption.
If you want secret-key (symmetric) cryptography you should be using the
functions in crypto::secretbox for encryption/decryption.
For public-key signatures you should use the functions in crypto::sign for
signature creation and verification.
Unless you know what you’re doing you most certainly don’t want to use the
functions in crypto::scalarmult, crypto::stream, crypto::auth and
crypto::onetimeauth.
Thread Safety
All functions in this library are thread-safe provided that the init()
function has been called during program execution.
If init() hasn’t been called then all functions except the random-number
generation functions and the key-generation functions are thread-safe.
Public-key cryptography
crypto::box_
crypto::sign
Sealed boxes
crypto::sealedox
Secret-key cryptography
crypto::secretbox
crypto::stream
crypto::auth
crypto::onetimeauth
Low-level functions
crypto::hash
crypto::verify
crypto::shorthash
Modules
Functions
init() initializes the sodium library and chooses faster versions of
the primitives if possible. init() also makes the random number generation
functions (gen_key, gen_keypair, gen_nonce, randombytes, randombytes_into)
thread-safe