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Daniel Bernstein is not the creator of libsodium. Libsodium is based on his work on <https://nacl.cr.yp.to/> which is not the same.

Frank Denis, maintainer of libsodium, is also a reputable engineer.

Libsodium is a fork of nacl.

It's certainly not the same as Nacl. But I'd reiterate: the point here isn't trust in the library's author. It's the intent of the library.