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📛 NAME

nacl

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔑 Generate a secret key	nacl.secret.SecretBox.generate()	Create a random key for symmetric encryption
🔒 Encrypt a message	nacl.secret.SecretBox(key).encrypt(message)	Encrypt using secret key (XSalsa20-Poly1305)
🔓 Decrypt a message	nacl.secret.SecretBox(key).decrypt(ciphertext)	Decrypt a previously encrypted message
👤 Generate a keypair	nacl.public.PrivateKey.generate()	Create a new curve25519 keypair for asymmetric encryption
📨 Encrypt with public key	nacl.public.Box(sk, pk).encrypt(message)	Encrypt a message using a shared secret derived from keys
✍️ Sign a message	nacl.signing.SigningKey.generate().sign(message)	Create a digital signature for a message
🔍 Verify a signature	nacl.signing.VerifyKey(public_bytes).verify(signed)	Check the authenticity of a signed message
🔑 Password-based key derivation	nacl.pwhash.str(password)	Hash a password for storage (Argon2id)
🔑 Verify password hash	nacl.pwhash.verify(hash, password)	Check a password against a stored hash
🔢 Hash a value	nacl.hash.sha256(data)	Compute a SHA-256 digest

📝 DESCRIPTION

This is the nacl package – Python bindings for the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

# Copyright 2013 Donald Stufft and individual contributors
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
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📦 PACKAGE CONTENTS

• _sodium
• bindings (package)
• encoding
• exceptions
• hash
• hashlib
• public
• pwhash (package)
• secret
• signing
• utils

📊 DATA

• __all__ = ['__title__', '__summary__', '__uri__', '__version__', '__au...
• __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013-2018 The PyNaCl developers'
• __email__ = 'cryptography-dev AT python.org'
• __license__ = 'Apache License 2.0'
• __summary__ = 'Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl...'
• __title__ = 'PyNaCl'
• __uri__ = 'https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/'

🔖 VERSION

1.5.0

👤 AUTHOR

The PyNaCl developers

📁 FILE

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nacl/__init__.py

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