In a new post to the Paragon Initiative blog Scott Arciszewski has shared a helpful reference for those that might be a little confused by the naming and functions involved in the use of libsodium in PHP. In this quick reference he lists out each of the functions, what type they are and an example use case.

Last Friday at Day Camp 4 Developers, I presented a talk titled Cooking with Sodium in PHP 7.2, which was largely live-demoing the various cryptography features provided by libsodium. One of the questions I was asked by attendees was about knowing which feature to use to solve specific problems. This is the sort of problem that I suspect many people run into, so here's a quick reference table followed by a detailed explanation.

In the table below, all encryption modes utilize authenticated encryption.

Following the quick reference table he then gets into more detail on each of the functions, describing in depth what they're for and examples of how to most effectively use them.