Botan vs LibreSSL

Botan

Cryptography Toolkit (by randombit)

botan.randombit.net

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)

Cryptography libressl C Openbsd Openssl SSL TLS

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libressl.org

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Botan		LibreSSL
	Project
5	Mentions	2
2,406	Stars	1,315
-	Growth	2.7%
9.8	Activity	9.6
4 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
C++	Language	C
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	-

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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.

Botan

Posts with mentions or reviews of Botan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.

Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022

We can relate to that! It is extremely helpful for our current efforts to implement TLS 1.3 for the Botan crypto library. Especially to get a foothold with TLS and gain a feeling for the protocol structure. Amazing work!
https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2922
C++: simple and efficient library for encrypt and decrypt text, AES algorithm
4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 18 Oct 2021

I always liked botan. https://github.com/randombit/botan
Botan Fridays
1 project | /r/Kappa | 8 Oct 2021

Transport Layer Security in C++ learn to Google, bro.
[Ann] A new Haskell crypto lib: Z-Botan 0.1.1
1 project | /r/haskell | 11 May 2021

After hundreds of days working. I'm happy to announce that the very first version of Z-Botan is published, It's a new crypto lib built around the versatile botan C++ crypto lib. Currently, all crypto stuff exported by Botan FFI is implemented, i.e.:

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
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2023
[gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued
2 projects | /r/Gentoo | 3 Jan 2021

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 Botan 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

Themis - Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

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.