gnupg VS libsodium

Compare gnupg vs libsodium and see what are their differences.

gnupg

Patches to GnuPG smartcard support (bigger keys, better error handling) (by chrisboyle)

libsodium

A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library. (by jedisct1)
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gnupg libsodium
15 30
2 11,960
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0.0 8.7
about 13 years ago 4 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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gnupg

Posts with mentions or reviews of gnupg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
  • YOUR OPSEC SUCKS | UHQ SCHIZOID OPSEC GUIDE | BECOME BULLETPROOF
    4 projects | /r/make_money_online_vip | 2 Apr 2023
    Here are some links to PGP software and guides. Guide on PGP: http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/beginners-guide-to-pgp/ GNU Privacy Guard (alternative): https://www.gnupg.org/ GPG for Windows: http://www.gpg4win.org/ GPG for USB: http://www.gpg4usb.org/
  • SryRMS: A bash script to help install some popular proprietary as well as libre applications not available in the official repositories of Ubuntu.
    2 projects | /r/bash | 7 Mar 2023
    function Main_Menu (){ if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then - printf "\033c" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "You must run \"sryrms\" script using \"sudo\" or as the root user." - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "Hint : \"sudo sryrms\" or \"su -c 'sryrms'\"" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - tput sgr0 + msgbox "You must run \"sryrms\" script using \"sudo\" or as the root user." \ + "Hint : \"sudo sryrms\" or \"su -c 'sryrms'\"" exit 1 fi if ! wget --spider --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20100101" --no-check-certificate --quiet --timeout=30 -q "www.google.com" -O /dev/null; then - printf "\033c" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "No active internet connection available!!" - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "Please check your internet connectivity!!" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - tput sgr0 + msgbox "No active internet connection available!!" + "Please check your internet connectivity!!" exit 1 fi - type wget >/dev/null 2>&1 || { printf "\033c"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"A required SryRMS dependency \"Wget\" is unavailable"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"\"Wget\" is available for almost all linux distros."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please install \"wget\" using your package manager."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please visit the homepage of \"Wget\" for more info"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; tput sgr0; exit 1; } - type gpg >/dev/null 2>&1 || { printf "\033c"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"A required SryRMS dependency \"GnuPG\" is unavailable"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"\"GnuPG\" is available for almost all linux distros."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please install \"gpg\" using your package manager."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please visit the homepage of \"GnuPG\" for more info"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"https://www.gnupg.org/"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; tput sgr0; exit 1; } + type wget >/dev/null 2>&1 || { msgbox "A required SryRMS dependency \"Wget\" is unavailable" \ + "\"Wget\" is available for almost all linux distros." \ + "Please install \"wget\" using your package manager." \ + "Please visit the homepage of \"Wget\" for more info" \ + "https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/"; + exit 1; } + type gpg >/dev/null 2>&1 || { msgbox "A required SryRMS dependency \"GnuPG\" is unavailable" \ + "\"GnuPG\" is available for almost all linux distros." \ + "Please install \"gpg\" using your package manager." \ + "Please visit the homepage of \"GnuPG\" for more info" \ + "https://www.gnupg.org/" ... and so on
  • Changes Coming to MsgSafe
    1 project | /r/MsgSafe | 24 Jan 2023
    If you have any questions, concerns, or need additional help regarding these upcoming changes, please contact us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])or open a support ticket in our help portal. For help generating a GPG key, please visit: https://www.gnupg.org/.
  • Decrypting files in Azure blob with Azure automation
    2 projects | /r/AZURE | 15 Dec 2022
    Iterate through the list of blobs and decrypt each one. You will need to use a PGP decryption tool to perform the actual decryption. One option you can use is the gpg command-line tool, which is part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) package. You can download and install GnuPG from https://www.gnupg.org/.
  • Photopea: A Photoshop clone web app
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2022
    Commercially successful idea. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ probably much more successful that https://www.gnupg.org/ but there’s a nuance.

    Photopea is awesome on its own though. I really like to showcase it as an example of complete web app.

  • Una guía para compartir archivos en la Blockchain con IPFS
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Jul 2022
  • Assinatura de commits
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Jun 2022
    Nesse link: gnupg vemos que GNUPG é The GNU Privacy Guard.
  • Raycast
    1 project | /r/macapps | 5 Jun 2022
    Dependency: requires gpg (https://www.gnupg.org/)
  • How to actually protect your privacy with GPG
    1 project | /r/conspiracy | 18 Jan 2022
    The free and open-source version can be found here: https://www.gnupg.org/
  • Publicar um artefato Java no Maven Central utilizando o maven local
    1 project | dev.to | 26 Dec 2021

libsodium

Posts with mentions or reviews of libsodium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.
  • Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 18 Sep 2023
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 16 Sep 2023
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
    Libsodium has been around for a while, so probably the reason it was posted is that version 1.0.19 was just released: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/releases/tag/1.0.19-RE...

    Updated NuGet and Swift packages are going to be uploaded soon.

    AEGIS-128X and 256X are not there yet, but if you need them, they are available in libaegis: https://github.com/jedisct1/libaegis

    All the code from libaegis will eventually be merged into libsodium, including the incremental update API which is especially useful for TLS.

  • Libsodium 1.0.19 Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
  • FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 June 2023
    34 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2023
  • Libsodium Still Relevant and Maintained?
    1 project | /r/crypto | 21 May 2023
    To version the dependency you can check the current stable tree in git and save the date and git hash.
  • I created an encrypted command line jounal
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 22 Apr 2023
    To address both of these vulnerabilities, you should instead use a library that handles these sharp edges for you. A well received library in the security and cryptography communities is libsodium. It has high level functions that handle password hashing and data encryption for you, reducing the risk that you introduce vulnerabilities in your code, such as you have here.
  • Why can't I burn scam tokens by sending them to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD?
    1 project | /r/ethereum | 13 Apr 2023
    In general, cryptography is really hard. So for example, an attacker could construct a message that if you signed would leak information, ie it reduces the space of possible keys such that it can be brute forced. I’m not entirely sure if you could do that with a transfer function. But it’s certainly possible. That said, there are a ton of smart devs trying to prevent that as well so I’m not assuming anything here. But prudent practices are likely good to follow. Be very careful calling anything from your cold wallet etc. Use disposable keys for anything a bit risky. I took a sec to google an example and this is the closest I could find. https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/issues/170
  • Some questions from a noob Rustacean
    1 project | /r/rust | 17 Mar 2023
    Hi everyone! I'm learning Rust while on a break between jobs, and as I'm particularly interested in interfacing Rust with C and in cryptography, I've decided to write a wrapper around libsodium (https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium) in Rust. This is purely a hobby project and I probably won't ever release it as there are already some open-source Rust bindings available for the library.
  • Librandombytes – a public domain library for generating randomness
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2023
    Can anyone recommend between Librandombytes and libsodium ramdombytes?

    https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/tree/master/src/libsod...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gnupg and libsodium you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

sshesame - An easy to set up and use SSH honeypot, a fake SSH server that lets anyone in and logs their activity

Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

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.

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.

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

libhydrogen - A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.

endlessh - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner

Bcrypt - Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers