Clojure library that abstracts libsodium's NaCl primitives (curve25519, ed25519, blake2b, box/unbox, sign/verify, etc.)
Still under construction... please check back later...
Requires the C-library libsodium to be installed. On Mac the easiest way to install is probably through brew:
brew install libsodium
I was looking for a Clojure library to work with NaCl's primitives. First I found the Clojure library Caesium, which is layered on top of Kalium, which is a Java library layered on top of libsodium. Unfortunately, the development on Caesium seem to have stalled. Then I tried to enhance Caesium, but the underlying Kalium forces you too much in a non-functional, Java-like programming style. Got distracted by the TweetNacl effort in Java - would like to focus on that again once this naclj is stable. Lastly, I used the foreign function interface jnr-ffi definitions from Kalium directly, and started to extend the interfaces defined for libsodium. The end result doesn't use anything from Caesium and Kalium anymore, except for a single java-file that defines the jnr-ffi "glue" between naclj's Clojure and libsodium's C-library.
- NaCl (Dan Bernstein's "NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library")
- libsodium (Frank Denis' fantastic C-implementation of Bernstein's NaCl)
- Kalium (Bruno Oliveira's comprehensive Java binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library with the awesomeness of libsodium)
- Caesium (lvh's Clojure bindings to Kalium's Java interfaces and implementation - unfortunately stalled after great start...)
- TweetNacl in Java (Tom Zhou amazing effort to have most of the NaCl functionality in a single pure java file.)
- jnr-ffi (cool foreign function interface to make it easier to call c-functions from Java... or Clojure)
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