Libsodium is now 13 years old! I started that project to pursue Dan Bernstein’s desire to make cryptography simple to use. That meant exposing a limited set of high-level functions and parameters, providing a simple API, and writing documentation for users, not cryptographers or developers. Libsodium’s goal was to expose APIs to perform operations, not low-level functions. Users shouldn’t even have to know or care about what algorithms are used internally. This is how I’ve always viewed libsodiu...