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I like the idea is this useful for anyone outside of google?


Pretty much anyone who wants to play with applications for cryptography. Cryptocurrency stuff immediately comes to mind, but also things like identity management, code signing, communications, password/secret management, voting, and I'm sure there's more.

I think the better way to say it is that if you are just building apps, then you probably don't need this. But, as an example, I was just thinking about hacking together a workflow for writing/deploying signed Javascript, so a Javascript version of this library would have been perfect.


Another way to say it: If you can delegate to HTTPS, filesystem encryption, or another higher-level construct, you probably don't need this.

If you're on your own (custom wire protocol, custom file format, oddball use case), maybe you want something like this (or libsodium).


Seems like anyone trying to build something from basics with crypto?




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