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Crypt-NaCl-Sodium-1.0.8.0
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NAME

Crypt::NaCl::Sodium - NaCl compatible modern, easy-to-use library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more

VERSION

version 1.0.8.0

SYNOPSIS

use Crypt::NaCl::Sodium qw( :utils );

my $crypto = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->new();

##########################
## Secret-key cryptography

# Secret-key authenticated encryption (XSalsa20/Poly1305 MAC)
my $crypto_secretbox = $crypto->secretbox();

# Secret-key message authentication (HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA512, HMAC-SHA512/256 )
my $crypto_auth = $crypto->auth();

# Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (ChaCha20/Poly1305 MAC, AES256-GCM)
my $crypto_aead = $crypto->aead();

##########################
## Public-key cryptography

# Public-key authenticated encryption (Curve25519/XSalsa20/Poly1305 MAC)
my $crypto_box = $crypto->box();

# Public-key signatures (Ed25519)
my $crypto_sign = $crypto->sign();

##########################
## Hashing

# Generic hashing (Blake2b)
my $crypto_generichash = $crypto->generichash();

# Short-input hashing (SipHash-2-4)
my $crypto_shorthash = $crypto->shorthash();

##########################
## Password hashing (yescrypt)

my $crypto_pwhash = $crypto->pwhash();

##########################
## Advanced

# SHA-2 (SHA-256, SHA-512)
my $crypto_hash = $crypto->hash();

# One-time authentication (Poly1305)
my $crypto_onetimeauth = $crypto->onetimeauth();

# Diffie-Hellman (Curve25519)
my $crypto_scalarmult = $crypto->scalarmult();

# Stream ciphers (XSalsa20, ChaCha20, Salsa20, AES-128-CTR)
my $crypto_stream = $crypto->stream();

##########################
## Utilities

# convert binary data to hexadecimal
my $hex = bin2hex($bin);

# convert hexadecimal to binary
my $bin = hex2bin($hex);

# constant time comparision of strings
memcmp($a, $b, $length ) or die '$a ne $b';

# constant time comparision of large numbers
compare($x, $y, $length ) == -1 and print '$x < $y';

# overwrite with null bytes
memzero($a, $b, ...);

# generate random number
my $num = random_number($upper_bound);

# generate random bytes
my $bytes = random_bytes($count);

##########################
## Guarded data storage

my $locker = Data::BytesLocker->new($password);
...
$locker->unlock();
print $locker->to_hex();
$locker->lock();

DESCRIPTION

Crypt::NaCl::Sodium provides bindings to libsodium - NaCl compatible modern, easy-to-use library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more.

It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API, and an extended API to improve usability even further.

Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.

The design choices emphasize security, and "magic constants" have clear rationales.

And despite the emphasis on high security, primitives are faster across-the-board than most implementations of the NIST standards.

Crypt::NaCl::Sodium uses Alien::Sodium that tracks the most current releases of libsodium.

METHODS

new

my $crypto = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->new();

Returns a proxy object for methods provided below.

secretbox

# Secret-key authenticated encryption (XSalsa20/Poly1305 MAC)
my $crypto_secretbox = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->secretbox();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::secretbox for more details.

auth

# Secret-key authentication (HMAC-SHA512/256 and advanced usage of HMAC-SHA-2)
my $crypto_auth = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->auth();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::auth for more details.

aead

# Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (ChaCha20/Poly1305 MAC, AES256-GCM)
my $crypto_aead = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->aead();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::aead for more details.

box

# Public-key authenticated encryption (Curve25519/XSalsa20/Poly1305 MAC)
my $crypto_box = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->box();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::box for more details.

sign

# Public-key signatures (Ed25519)
my $crypto_sign = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->sign();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::sign for more details.

generichash

# Generic hashing (Blake2b)
my $crypto_generichash = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->generichash();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::generichash for more details.

shorthash

# Short-input hashing (SipHash-2-4)
my $crypto_shorthash = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->shorthash();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::shorthash for more details.

pwhash

# Password hashing (yescrypt)
my $crypto_pwhash = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->pwhash();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::pwhash for more details.

hash

# SHA-2 (SHA-256, SHA-512)
my $crypto_hash = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->hash();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::hash for more details.

onetimeauth

# One-time authentication (Poly1305)
my $crypto_onetimeauth = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->onetimeauth();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::onetimeauth for more details.

scalarmult

# Diffie-Hellman (Curve25519)
my $crypto_scalarmult = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->scalarmult();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::scalarmult for more details.

stream

# Stream ciphers (XSalsa20, ChaCha20, Salsa20, AES-128-CTR)
my $crypto_stream = Crypt::NaCl::Sodium->stream();

Read Crypt::NaCl::Sodium::stream for more details.

FUNCTIONS

use Crypt::NaCl::Sodium qw(:utils);

Imports all provided functions.

bin2hex

my $hex = bin2hex($bin);

Returns converted $bin into a hexadecimal string.

hex2bin

my $hex = "41 : 42 : 43";
my $bin = hex2bin($hex, ignore => ": ", max_len => 2 );
print $bin; # AB

Parses a hexadecimal string $hex and converts it to a byte sequence.

Optional arguments:

  • ignore

    A string of characters to skip. For example, the string ": " allows columns and spaces to be present at any locations in the hexadecimal string. These characters will just be ignored.

    If unset any non-hexadecimal characters are disallowed.

  • max_len

    The maximum number of bytes to return.

The parser stops when a non-hexadecimal, non-ignored character is found or when max_len bytes have been written.

memcmp

memcmp($a, $b, $length ) or die "\$a ne \$b for length: $length";

Compares strings in constant-time. Returns true if they match, false otherwise.

The argument $length is optional if variables are of the same length. Otherwise it is required and cannot be greater then the length of the shorter of compared variables.

NOTE: "memcmp" in Data::BytesLocker provides the same functionality.

$locker->memcmp($b, $length) or die "\$locker ne \$b for length: $length";

compare

compare($x, $y, $length ) == -1 and print '$x < $y';

A constant-time version of "memcmp", useful to compare nonces and counters in little-endian format, that plays well with "increment".

Returns -1 if $x is lower then $y, 0 if $x and $y are identical, or 1 if $x is greater then $y. Both $x and $y are assumed to be numbers encoded in little-endian format.

The argument $length is optional if variables are of the same length. Otherwise it is required and cannot be greater then the length of the shorter of compared variables.

NOTE: "compare" in Data::BytesLocker provides the same functionality.

$locker->compare($y, $length) == -1 and print "\$locker < \$y for length: $length";

memzero

memzero($a, $b, ...);

Replaces the value of the provided stringified variables with null bytes. Length of the zeroed variables is unchanged.

random_number

my $num = random_number($upper_bound);

Returns an unpredictable number between 0 and optional $upper_bound (excluded). If $upper_bound is not specified the maximum value is 0xffffffff (included).

increment

increment($nonce, ...);

NOTE: This function is deprecated and will be removed in next version. Please use "increment" in Data::BytesLocker.

Increments an arbitrary long unsigned number(s) (in place). Function runs in constant-time for a given length of arguments and considers them to be encoded in little-endian format.

random_bytes

my $bytes = random_bytes($num_of_bytes);

Generates unpredictable sequence of $num_of_bytes bytes.

The length of the $bytes equals the value of $num_of_bytes.

Returns Data::BytesLocker object.

VARIABLES

$Data::BytesLocker::DEFAULT_LOCKED

use Crypt::NaCl::Sodium;
$Data::BytesLocker::DEFAULT_LOCKED = 1;

By default all values returned from the provided methods are unlocked Data::BytesLocker objects. If this variable is set to true then the returned objects are locked and require calling "unlock" in Data::BytesLocker before accessing.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Alex J. G. Burzyński <ajgb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Alex J. G. Burzyński <ajgb@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.