Package libmonocypher: Information

Monocypher is an easy-to-use crypto library.

* Small. Sloccount counts under 2000 lines of code, small enough to allow
audits. The binaries can be under 50KB, small enough for many embedded targets.
* Easy to deploy. Just add monocypher.c and monocypher.h to your project.
They compile as C99 or C++ and are dedicated to the public domain (CC0-1.0,
alternatively 2-clause BSD).
* Portable. There are no dependencies, not even on libc.
* Honest. The API is small, consistent, and cannot fail on correct input.
* Direct. The abstractions are minimal. A developer with experience in applied
cryptography can be productive in minutes.
* Fast. The primitives are fast to begin with and performance wasn`t needlessly
sacrificed. Monocypher holds up pretty well against libsodium, despite being
closer in size to TweetNaCl.

Features.

* Authenticated Encryption with XChaCha20 and Poly1305 (RFC 8439), with nonces
big enough to be random. Regular ChaCha20 is also implemented.
* Hashing with BLAKE2b, which is as secure as SHA-3 and as fast as MD5.
* Password Hashing with Argon2i, which won the Password Hashing competition.
* Public Key Cryptography with X25519 (Diffie-Hellman key exchange). X25519
uses public keys to compute a symmetric key that can be used for
authenticated encryption.
* Public Key Signatures with EdDSA (RFC 8032). By default, EdDSA uses BLAKE2b
and Edwards25519. Ed25519 (SHA-512 and Edwards25519) is available as an option.
* Steganography support with Elligator 2. Elligator can hide ephemeral public
keys as random noise, which is easier to hide from censors and other such
adversaries.
* Password Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) support with Elligator 2
(map to point) and scalar inversion (Oblivious Pseudo-Random Function).

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