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Roadmap

libsodium’s roadmap is driven by its user community, and new ideas are always welcome.

New features will gladly be implemented if they are not redundant and solve common problems.

pre-1.0.0 roadmap

  • AEAD construction (ChaCha20-Poly1305)
  • API to set initial counter value in ChaCha20/Salsa20
  • Big-endian compatibility
  • BLAKE2
  • ChaCha20
  • Constant-time comparison
  • Cross-compilation support
  • Detached authentication for crypto_box() and crypto_secretbox()
  • Detached signatures
  • Deterministic key generation for crypto_box()
  • Deterministic key generation for crypto_sign()
  • Documentation
  • Ed25519 signatures
  • Emscripten support
  • FP rounding mode independent Poly1305 implementation
  • Faster portable Curve25519 implementation
  • Fix undefined behaviors for C99
  • Guarded memory
  • HMAC-SHA512, HMAC-SHA256
  • Hex codec
  • Hide specific implementations, expose wrappers
  • Higher-level API for crypto_box
  • Higher-level API for crypto_secretbox
  • Lift ZEROBYTES requirements
  • Make all constants accessible via public functions
  • MinGW port
  • Minimal build mode
  • NuGet packages
  • Password hashing
  • Pluggable random number generator
  • Portable memory locking
  • Position-independent code
  • Replace the build system with Autotools/Libtool
  • Runtime CPU features detection
  • Secure memory zeroing
  • Seed and public key extraction from an Ed25519 secret key
  • SipHash
  • Streaming support for hashing and authentication
  • Streaming support for one-time authentication
  • Support for arbitrary HMAC key lengths
  • Support for architectures requiring strict alignment
  • Visual Studio port
  • 100% code coverage, static and dynamic analysis
  • arc4random*() compatible API
  • Ed25519 to X25519 keys conversion
  • iOS/Android compatibility

1.0.x roadmap

  • Constant-time bin2hex() [DONE] and hex2bin() [DONE]
  • Constant-time base64 codecs [DONE]
  • Improve consistency and clarity of function prototypes
  • Improve the documentation
  • Consider getrandom(2) [DONE]
  • Consider Gitian
  • Complete the sodium-validation project
  • Optimized implementations for ARM w/NEON
  • AVX optimized Curve25119 [DONE]
  • Precomputed interface for crypto_box_easy() [DONE]
  • First-class support for JavaScript [DONE]
  • ChaCha20 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 with a 96-bit nonce and a 32-bit counter [DONE]
  • IETF-compatible ChaCha20-Poly1305 implementation [DONE]
  • SSE-optimized BLAKE2b implementation [DONE]
  • AES-GCM [DONE]
  • AES-GCM detached mode [DONE]
  • Use Montgomery reduction for GHASH
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305 detached mode [DONE]
  • Argon2i as crypto_pwhash [DONE]
  • Argon2id as crypto_pwhash [DONE]
  • Multithreaded crypto_pwhash [on hold]
  • Generic subkey derivation API [DONE]
  • Nonce misuse-resistant scheme
  • BLAKE2 AVX2 implementations [DONE]
  • Keyed (Hash-then-Encrypt) crypto_pwhash
  • Consider yescrypt
  • Argon2id [DONE]
  • Port libhydrogen’s key exchange API
  • SSSE3 ChaCha20 implementation [DONE]
  • SSSE3 Salsa20 implementation [DONE]
  • SSSE3 Poly1305 implementation [DONE]
  • AVX2 Salsa20 implementation [DONE]
  • AVX2 ChaCha20 implementation [DONE]
  • AVX2 Poly1305 implementation
  • AVX512 implementations [done for Argon2, withhold for other operations due to throttling concerns]
  • Key generation API [DONE]
  • Nonce/subkey generation API
  • WebAssembly support [DONE]
  • Stream encryption using a CHAIN-like construction [DONE]
  • Security audit by a 3rd party [DONE]
  • Formally-verified implementations [on hold]
  • Padding API [DONE]
  • secretstream_inject() for nonce misuse-resistance [on hold]
  • Point addition, subtraction [DONE]
  • Point validation [DONE]
  • Hash-to-point (Elligator) [DONE]
  • SPAKE2+ [DONE]
  • Support server relief in the password hashing API
  • Ristretto [DONE]
  • Consider a streaming interface for crypto_shorthash_*()
  • AEGIS-256 [DONE]
  • AEGIS-128L [DONE]
  • AEGIS-based secretstream API [PoC exists]
  • HKDF/SHA-512 and HKDF/SHA-256 [DONE]
  • Standard hash-to-curve [DONE]
  • Consider signcryption
  • High-level AEAD and secretstream APIs
  • Consider ECVRF [in progress]
  • Consider FROST
  • Consider using TIMECOP2
  • Consider bscrypt
  • Check/mitigate the implications of the DIT and DOITM flags.
  • Add SHAKE/TurboSHAKE/KT12
  • AEGIS-128X and 256X
  • Add more ARM optimized implementations
  • Add AEGISMAC
  • Consider AES-GCM-SIV
  • Parallel Argon2
  • Consider a streaming interface to Ed25519 signatures
  • Batch signatures
  • HPKE
  • ML-KEM
  • CHERI support for the allocation functions
  • See if wasm32-freestanding can be supported
  • Consider BLS signatures

2.0.0 roadmap

  • Switch to a new API (libhydrogen/WASI-crypto)
  • Session support