Feature request: Add sodium extension

[nilskretschmer]

I think it would be helpful to have sodium included in the default binaries. As sodium is included in modern PHP why not include it in the NativePHP binaries (see https://www.php.net/manual/en/sodium.installation.php)?

I am working on an E2EE-enabled app with NativePHP desktop and I am running into issues when I am trying to generate key pairs:
[2025-10-25 16:47:12] local.ERROR: Call to undefined function sodium_crypto_sign_keypair() {"exception":"[object] (Error(code: 0): Call to undefined function sodium_crypto_sign_keypair() at C:\\Users\\nk\\programming\\my-app\\desktop\\app\\Livewire\\Setup.php:59)

What do you guys think?

Or should I generate my own binaries? As the docs say if I use my own binaries there won't be support on GitHub and there could be security risks I wanted to ask here first.

[nilskretschmer]

@gwleuverink

Maybe you could look into this?

[nilskretschmer]

For anyone having similar issues you can use https://github.com/paragonie/sodium_compat as a polyfill. This comes with performance impacts (mostly on low-performance-devices) so I still think having the sodium extension bundled with the NativePHP binary would be helpful - this could be even more relevant for NativePHP Mobile.

[nilskretschmer]

Nevermind: It is not working correctly as the pure PHP implementation has major drawbacks:

# SodiumException - Internal Server Error

This is not implemented, as it is not possible to implement Argon2i with acceptable performance in pure-PHP

PHP 8.4.12
Laravel 12.37.0
127.0.0.1:8100

## Stack Trace

0 - vendor\paragonie\sodium_compat\src\Compat.php:1896
1 - vendor\paragonie\sodium_compat\lib\php72compat.php:908
2 - app\Support\Crypt.php:21
3 - app\Livewire\Setup.php:98
4 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod.php:36
5 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Util.php:43
6 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod.php:96
7 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod.php:35
8 - vendor\livewire\livewire\src\Wrapped.php:23
9 - vendor\livewire\livewire\src\Mechanisms\HandleComponents\HandleComponents.php:492
10 - vendor\livewire\livewire\src\Mechanisms\HandleComponents\HandleComponents.php:101
11 - vendor\livewire\livewire\src\LivewireManager.php:102
12 - vendor\livewire\livewire\src\Mechanisms\HandleRequests\HandleRequests.php:94
13 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\ControllerDispatcher.php:46
14 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Route.php:265
15 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Route.php:211
16 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Router.php:822
17 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:180
18 - vendor\laravel\boost\src\Middleware\InjectBoost.php:22
19 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
20 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings.php:50
21 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
22 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken.php:87
23 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
24 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession.php:48
25 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
26 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession.php:120
27 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession.php:63
28 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
29 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse.php:36
30 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
31 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\EncryptCookies.php:74
32 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
33 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:137
34 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Router.php:821
35 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Router.php:800
36 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Router.php:764
37 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Router.php:753
38 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel.php:200
39 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:180
40 - vendor\livewire\livewire\src\Features\SupportDisablingBackButtonCache\DisableBackButtonCacheMiddleware.php:19
41 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
42 - vendor\spatie\laravel-csp\src\AddCspHeaders.php:17
43 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
44 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ConvertEmptyStringsToNull.php:27
45 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
46 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\TrimStrings.php:47
47 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
48 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Middleware\ValidatePostSize.php:27
49 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
50 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance.php:109
51 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
52 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Middleware\HandleCors.php:48
53 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
54 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Middleware\TrustProxies.php:58
55 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
56 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\InvokeDeferredCallbacks.php:22
57 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
58 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Middleware\ValidatePathEncoding.php:26
59 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:219
60 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php:137
61 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel.php:175
62 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel.php:144
63 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php:1220
64 - public\index.php:20
65 - vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\resources\server.php:23

So having native sodium-support would be very useful...