Bcrypt
Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers (by pyca)
LibreSSL
LibreSSL Portable itself. This includes the build scaffold and compatibility layer that builds portable LibreSSL from the OpenBSD source code. Pull requests or patches sent to [email protected] are welcome. (by libressl)
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| Bcrypt | LibreSSL | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | |
| 1,130 | 1,315 | |
| 2.9% | 2.7% | |
| 9.1 | 9.6 | |
| 9 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Python | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Bcrypt
Posts with mentions or reviews of Bcrypt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Encripty passwords? Answer from Chat GPT
This is pretty spot on, and the salt is a common practice too. There’s libraries like bcrypt that can handle this for you. I recommend watching this video as an introduction to securely storing passwords, and check the comments for some other good tips.
- Tried starting automatic1111 and this virus popped up. Any ideas?
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Secure Password Handling in Python
bcrypt is a library and algorithm which we used above. This is the same code which is used by passlib and there's not really a reason to use this low-level library.
LibreSSL
Posts with mentions or reviews of LibreSSL.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.
- OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life Approaching
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[gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued
On the plus side they have Ed25519, on the negative side we don't have BLAKE2 or X25519, etc.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Bcrypt and LibreSSL you can also consider the following projects:
OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library
Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes
mbedTLS - An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.
libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
GnuTLS - GnuTLS
Tiny AES128 in C - Small portable AES128/192/256 in C
GnuPG - Mirror of git://git.gnupg.org/gnupg.git — master branch contains no changes from upstream.
Botan - Cryptography Toolkit