Why is not the origin libsodium library used when running a cardano-node?

Hi Elysium,

I share your concern because we’re still using that specific commit of the forked version as of now - per the official documentation. After searching a bit more about this, it looks like using this forked version is intentional. There was a conversation talking about merging this VRF feature support to upstream. However, it’s not happening because VRF specification is still a draft version.

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But definitely, I’d keep monitoring closely this because it will introduce complexity in the future.

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