diff --git a/packaging/dotnet-core/.gitignore b/packaging/dotnet-core/.gitignore
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+build
+cache
+libsodium.*.nupkg
+libsodium.*.nuspec
+Makefile
diff --git a/packaging/dotnet-core/README.md b/packaging/dotnet-core/README.md
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+This directory contains scripts and files to package libsodium for .NET Core.
+
+In .NET Core, it is customary to provide pre-compiled binaries for all platforms
+as NuGet packages. The purpose of the `prepare.py` script in this directory is
+to generate a `Makefile` that downloads pre-compiled libsodium binaries from a
+list of sources and creates a NuGet package that can be uploaded to
+[nuget.org](https://nuget.org/).
+
+
+#### Sources
+
+The list of sources is located in `prepare.py` and needs to be updated on each
+libsodium release. Currently, libsodium binaries are obtained in the following
+ways:
+
+* For Windows, the binaries are taken from
+  [download.libsodium.org](https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/).
+* For macOS, the binaries are extracted from the
+  [Homebrew libsodium bottle](https://bintray.com/homebrew/bottles/libsodium).
+* For Linux, libsodium is compiled on and downloaded from the
+  [openSUSE Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:nsec/libsodium).
+
+
+#### Metadata
+
+The metadata for the NuGet package is located in `libsodium.nuspec`. On each
+invocation, the `prepare.py` script generates a new version number and creates a
+`.nuspec` file that contains the metadata from `libsodium.nuspec`, the generated
+version number and the list of binaries.
+
+
+#### Making a release
+
+1. Update `_service` to reflect the current libsodium version.
+2. Download `libsodium.spec` and `libsodium.changes` from
+   [here](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=devel%3Alibraries%3Ac_c%2B%2B&package=libsodium).
+3. Upload `_service`, `libsodium.spec`, `libsodium.changes` and the current
+   `libsodium-{version}.tar.gz` to openSUSE Build Service.
+4. Update the libsodium version, file names and download URLs in `prepare.py`.
+5. Run `./prepare.py` to generate the `Makefile` and
+   `libsodium.{version}.nuspec`.
+6. Run `make` to download the binaries and create `libsodium.{version}.nupkg`.
+   You may need to install `unzip`, `rpm2cpio` and `dotnet-dev` first.
+7. Verify that everything in the `.nupkg` file is in place.
+8. Publish the release by uploading the `.nupkg` file to 
+   [nuget.org](https://nuget.org/).
+9. Commit the updated `prepare.py` and `version.json` to the libsodium
+   repository.
diff --git a/packaging/dotnet-core/_service b/packaging/dotnet-core/_service
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+<services>
+  <service name="download_url">
+    <param name="protocol">ftp</param>
+    <param name="host">ftp.us.debian.org</param>
+    <param name="path">/debian/pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium_1.0.11-1.dsc</param>
+  </service>
+  <service name="download_url">
+    <param name="protocol">ftp</param>
+    <param name="host">ftp.us.debian.org</param>
+    <param name="path">/debian/pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium_1.0.11.orig.tar.gz</param>
+  </service>
+  <service name="download_url">
+    <param name="protocol">ftp</param>
+    <param name="host">ftp.us.debian.org</param>
+    <param name="path">/debian/pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium_1.0.11-1.debian.tar.xz</param>
+  </service>
+</services>
diff --git a/packaging/dotnet-core/libsodium.nuspec b/packaging/dotnet-core/libsodium.nuspec
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<package>
+  <metadata>
+    <id>libsodium</id>
+    <version><!-- set by prepare.py --></version>
+    <authors>Frank Denis</authors>
+    <owners>Frank Denis</owners>
+    <requireLicenseAcceptance>true</requireLicenseAcceptance>
+    <licenseUrl>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jedisct1/libsodium/master/LICENSE</licenseUrl>
+    <projectUrl>https://libsodium.org/</projectUrl>
+    <!--<iconUrl></iconUrl>-->
+    <description>A modern and easy-to-use crypto library, packaged for use with .NET Core</description>
+    <copyright>&#169; 2013-2017 Frank Denis</copyright>
+  </metadata>
+  <files>
+    <file src="../../LICENSE" target="LICENSE" />
+    <!-- additional files added by prepare.py -->
+  </files>
+</package>
diff --git a/packaging/dotnet-core/prepare.py b/packaging/dotnet-core/prepare.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import datetime
+import json
+import os.path
+import sys
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+
+#
+# OUTPUT CONFIGURATION
+#
+
+# Package metadata
+NUPKG_ID = 'libsodium'
+NUPKG_VERSION = '1.0.11'
+
+# The names of the libsodium binaries in the package
+LIBSODIUM_DLL   = 'libsodium.dll'
+LIBSODIUM_DYLIB = 'libsodium.dylib'
+LIBSODIUM_SO    = 'libsodium.so'
+
+#
+# INPUT CONFIGURATION
+#
+
+# The archives to download
+WIN_FILE = 'libsodium-1.0.11-msvc.zip'
+DEB_FILE = 'libsodium18_1.0.11-1_amd64.deb'
+RPM_FILE = 'libsodium18-1.0.11-14.1.x86_64.rpm'
+OSX_FILE = 'libsodium-1.0.11.{0}.bottle.tar.gz'
+
+# The URLs of the archives
+OFFICIAL_URL = 'https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/{0}'
+OPENSUSE_URL = 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/nsec/{0}/{1}/{2}'
+HOMEBREW_URL = 'https://bintray.com/homebrew/bottles/download_file?file_path={0}'
+
+# The files within the archives to extract
+WIN_LIB = '{0}/Release/v140/dynamic/libsodium.dll'
+DEB_LIB = './usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsodium.so.18.1.1'
+RPM_LIB = './usr/lib64/libsodium.so.18.1.1'
+OSX_LIB = 'libsodium/1.0.11/lib/libsodium.18.dylib'
+
+# Commands to extract a file from an archive
+DEB_EXTRACT = 'ar -p {0} data.tar.xz | tar xJ "{1}"'
+RPM_EXTRACT = 'rpm2cpio {0} | cpio -i "{1}"'
+TAR_EXTRACT = 'tar xzf {0} "{1}"'
+ZIP_EXTRACT = 'unzip {0} "{1}"'
+
+# The inputs
+INPUTS = [
+
+  ( 'win10-x64',
+    WIN_FILE,
+    OFFICIAL_URL.format(WIN_FILE),
+    WIN_LIB.format('x64'),
+    ZIP_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_DLL),
+
+  ( 'win10-x86',
+    WIN_FILE,
+    OFFICIAL_URL.format(WIN_FILE),
+    WIN_LIB.format('Win32'),
+    ZIP_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_DLL),
+
+  ( 'debian.8-x64',
+    DEB_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('Debian_8.0', 'amd64', DEB_FILE),
+    DEB_LIB,
+    DEB_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'ubuntu.14.04-x64',
+    DEB_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('xUbuntu_14.04', 'amd64', DEB_FILE),
+    DEB_LIB,
+    DEB_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'ubuntu.16.04-x64',
+    DEB_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('xUbuntu_16.04', 'amd64', DEB_FILE),
+    DEB_LIB,
+    DEB_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'ubuntu.16.10-x64',
+    DEB_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('xUbuntu_16.10', 'amd64', DEB_FILE),
+    DEB_LIB,
+    DEB_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'centos.7-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('CentOS_7', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'fedora.23-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('Fedora_23', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'fedora.24-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('Fedora_24', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'fedora.25-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('Fedora_25', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'opensuse.42.1-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('openSUSE_Leap_42.1', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'opensuse.42.2-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('openSUSE_Leap_42.2', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'rhel.7-x64',
+    RPM_FILE,
+    OPENSUSE_URL.format('RHEL_7', 'x86_64', RPM_FILE),
+    RPM_LIB,
+    RPM_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_SO),
+
+  ( 'osx.10.10-x64',
+    OSX_FILE.format('yosemite'),
+    HOMEBREW_URL.format(OSX_FILE.format('yosemite')),
+    OSX_LIB,
+    TAR_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_DYLIB),
+
+  ( 'osx.10.11-x64',
+    OSX_FILE.format('el_capitan'),
+    HOMEBREW_URL.format(OSX_FILE.format('el_capitan')),
+    OSX_LIB,
+    TAR_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_DYLIB),
+
+  ( 'osx.10.12-x64',
+    OSX_FILE.format('sierra'),
+    HOMEBREW_URL.format(OSX_FILE.format('sierra')),
+    OSX_LIB,
+    TAR_EXTRACT,
+    LIBSODIUM_DYLIB),
+
+]
+
+# The version cookie
+COOKIE_FILE = 'version.json'
+
+#
+# INTERMEDIATE FILES
+#
+
+CACHEDIR = 'cache'
+TEMPDIR = 'build'
+
+#
+# DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
+#
+
+class Item:
+  def __init__(self, input, cachedir, tempdir):
+    rid, archive, url, file, extract, lib = input
+
+    self.rid = rid
+    self.archive = archive
+    self.url = url
+    self.file = file
+    self.extract = extract
+    self.lib = lib
+
+    self.cachefile = os.path.join(cachedir, rid, archive)
+    self.sourcedir = os.path.join(tempdir, rid)
+    self.sourcefile = os.path.join(tempdir, rid, os.path.normpath(file))
+    self.targetfile = os.path.join('runtimes', rid, 'native', lib)
+
+def create_nuspec(template, nuspec, version, items):
+  tree = ET.parse(template)
+  package = tree.getroot()
+  metadata = package.find('metadata')
+  metadata.find('version').text = version
+  files = package.find('files')
+  for item in items:
+    ET.SubElement(files, 'file', src=item.sourcefile, target=item.targetfile).tail = '\n'
+  tree.write(nuspec, 'ascii', '<?xml version="1.0"?>')
+
+def create_makefile(makefile, nupkg, nuspec, items):
+  with open(makefile, 'w') as f:
+    for item in items:
+      f.write('FILES += {0}\n'.format(item.sourcefile))
+    f.write('\n')
+    f.write('{0}: {1} $(FILES)\n\tdotnet nuget pack $<\n'.format(nupkg, nuspec))
+    for item in items:
+      f.write('\n')
+      f.write('{0}:\n\t@mkdir -p $(dir $@)\n\tcurl -f#Lo $@ "{1}"\n'.format(item.cachefile, item.url))
+    for item in items:
+      f.write('\n')
+      f.write('{0}: {1}\n\t@mkdir -p $(dir $@)\n\tcd {2} && {3}\n'.format(
+        item.sourcefile,
+        item.cachefile,
+        item.sourcedir,
+        item.extract.format(os.path.relpath(item.cachefile, item.sourcedir), item.file)))
+
+def make_prerelease_version(version, suffix, cookie_file):
+  cookies = dict()
+  if os.path.isfile(cookie_file):
+    with open(cookie_file, 'r') as f:
+      cookies = json.load(f)
+  cookie = cookies.get(suffix, '---').split('-')
+  year, month, day, *rest = datetime.datetime.utcnow().timetuple()
+  major = '{0:03}{1:02}'.format(year * 12 + month - 23956, day)
+  minor = int(cookie[3]) + 1 if cookie[:3] == [version, suffix, major] else 1
+  result = '{0}-{1}-{2}-{3:02}'.format(version, suffix, major, minor)
+  cookies[suffix] = result
+  with open(cookie_file, 'w') as f:
+    json.dump(cookies, f, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
+  return result
+
+def main(args):
+  if len(args) > 2 or len(args) > 1 and not args[1].isalpha:
+    print('usage: {0} [label]'.format(os.path.basename(args[0])))
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+  version = NUPKG_VERSION
+
+  if len(args) > 1:
+    suffix = args[1].lower()
+  else:
+    suffix = 'preview'
+
+  if suffix != 'release':
+    version = make_prerelease_version(version, suffix, COOKIE_FILE)
+    print('updated', COOKIE_FILE)
+
+  template = NUPKG_ID + '.nuspec'
+  nuspec = NUPKG_ID + '.' + version + '.nuspec'
+  nupkg = NUPKG_ID + '.' + version + '.nupkg'
+
+  tempdir = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, version)
+  items = [Item(input, CACHEDIR, tempdir) for input in INPUTS]
+
+  create_nuspec(template, nuspec, version, items)
+  print('created', nuspec)
+
+  create_makefile('Makefile', nupkg, nuspec, items)
+  print('created', 'Makefile', 'to make', nupkg)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  main(sys.argv)
diff --git a/packaging/dotnet-core/version.json b/packaging/dotnet-core/version.json
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+{
+    "preview": "1.0.11-preview-24920-01"
+}
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