diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 35ba07dbe0c..2c17270473c 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1700,3 +1700,4 @@ libswc.so.0 swc-git-20140809_1
 libfcgi.so.0 fcgi-2.4.0_2
 libdshconfig.so.1 libdshconfig-0.20.13_1
 libpar2.so.1 libpar2-0.4_1
+libsodium.so.13 libsodium-0.7.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsodium-devel b/srcpkgs/libsodium-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..f8e41920d89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsodium-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libsodium
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsodium/template b/srcpkgs/libsodium/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c770b2ba720
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsodium/template
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Template file for 'libsodium'
+pkgname=libsodium
+version=0.7.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="A modern and easy-to-use crypto library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="ISC"
+homepage="https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium"
+distfiles="https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/releases/download/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=4ccaffd1a15be67786e28a61b602492a97eb5bcb83455ed53c02fa038b8e9168
+
+libsodium-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}