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If your needs are this simple, you may be better served by an opinionated crypto library like Monocypher [0] or libsodium [1]. Just look at the latter's FAQ page and you'll see they're taking your approach targeting developers, not cryptographers.

They'll provide you one blessed algorithm for every primitive with secure alternatives if your use-case demands them. XChaCha20-Poly1305 for encryption, EdDSA for signatures, X25519 for key exchange, BLAKE2b for a hash, Argon2i for a KDF.

[0] https://monocypher.org/

[1] https://doc.libsodium.org/doc/quickstart

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