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 NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build
 higher-level cryptographic tools.
 
-Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable,
-API-compatible version of NaCl.
+Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable
+crypto library based on NaCl, with a compatible API.
 
 ## Portability