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paragonie / halite

halite

High-level cryptography interface powered by libsodium

2Distinct people
12Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

High-level cryptography interface powered by libsodium

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-15 20:24:57 UTC to 2019-07-08 17:34:32 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I've tried it. I've failed at it. Halite is a libsodium wrapper for PHP projects that emphasizes ease-of-use and difficulty to misuse: https://github.com/paragonie/halite CMS Airship is a secure-by-default content management system (think WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.): https://github.com/paragonie/airship Both projects are released under GPL but offer commercial licenses. In two years, I've only had one person ever inquire about a commercial license, and they backed out. One of the libraries I wrote has an installed base of (not counting WordPress) over 28 million, yet I rarely hear from its users: https://packagist.org/packages/paragonie/random_compat The barrier isn't legal or philosophical, it's that a lot of very useful open source software (especially libraries that developers interface with) are infrastructure rather than window
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dressing, which is largely invisible to organizations. If you only develop window-dressing libraries, then the stuff 'patio11 has said here over the years might hold true. But if you're trying to build a more secure Internet by giving developers better tools, nobody wants to pay you for that.
In Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?
> Is your homemade framework superior to Laravel? If so, how? Our cryptography is certainly superior to Laravel's. https://github.com/illuminate/encryption https://github.com/paragonie/halite Beyond that, nobody has paid me to look deeper and I haven't had any reason to. > There are vulnerabilities in there, I've seen enough code like that to almost guarantee you. If so, then anyone reading this thread who's aware of any vulnerabilities will be interested in: https://hackerone.com/paragonie
In How We Engineered CMS Airship to Be Simply Secure

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