sodium_crypto_aead_chacha20poly1305_ietf_decrypt function mentions in its documentation that it'll always return a string. But when passed a malformed input as argument, it returns a boolean(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)
sodium_crypto_aead_chacha20poly1305_ietf_decrypt — Verifica que el texto cifrado incluye una etiqueta válida
$ciphertext,$additional_data,$nonce,$keyVerifica y luego descifra con ChaCha20-Poly1305 (variante IETF).
La variante IETF utiliza nonces de 96 bits y contadores internos de 32 bits, en lugar de 64 bits para ambos.
ciphertextadditional_datanoncekey
Devuelve el texto en claro en caso de éxito, o false si ocurre un error.
sodium_crypto_aead_chacha20poly1305_ietf_decrypt function mentions in its documentation that it'll always return a string. But when passed a malformed input as argument, it returns a boolean