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 ![libsodium](https://raw.github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/master/logo.png)
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-![libsodium sketch](https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/libsodium-sketch.jpg)
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-(sketch by [Irina Shestak](https://github.com/lrlna/sketchin))
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 Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption,
 decryption, signatures, password hashing and more.