The ext-sodium API exposes the following functions: * sodium_crypto_stream(int $len, string $nonce, string $key): string * sodium_crypto_stream_keygen(): string * sodium_crypto_stream_xor(string $message, string $nonce, string $key): string
(And the new XChaCha variant landing in PHP 8.1, of course.) This is good for, like, 99% of the use cases for the crypto_stream API. However, there is a missed opportunity: Being able to seek arbitrary starting points in the XSalsa20 or XChaCha20 keystream when encrypting/decrypting data. The underlying libsodium API has a distinct feature for this: Functions with the _ic suffix <https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/6d566070b48efd2fa099bbe9822914455150aba9/src/libsodium/crypto_stream/salsa20/ref/salsa20_ref.c#L64-L66> . Let's add an optional integer argument to the following PHP functions: - sodium_crypto_stream_xor - sodium_crypto_stream_xchacha20_xor The only question I have is: Should this land in 8.1 (it's small and self-contained) or 8.2?
