cipherscan
A very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target. (by mozilla)
engine
A reference implementation of the Russian GOST crypto algorithms for OpenSSL (by gost-engine)
| cipherscan | engine | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 1,937 | 351 | |
| 0.6% | 1.7% | |
| 2.5 | 4.4 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | C | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
cipherscan
Posts with mentions or reviews of cipherscan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-18.
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CryptoLyzer: A comprehensive cryptographic settings analyzer
There are many notable open-source projects (SSLyze, CipherScan, testssl.sh, tls-scan, …) and several SaaS solutions (CryptCheck, CypherCraft, Hardenize, ImmuniWeb, Mozilla Observatory, SSL Labs, …) to do a security setting analysis, especially when we are talking about TLS, which is the most common and popular cryptographic protocol. However, most of these tools heavily depend on one or more versions of one or more cryptographic protocol libraries, like GnuTLS, OpenSSL, or wolfSSL. But why is this such a problem?
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A friendly reminder from the good guys at NSA to stop using obsolete TLS versions and cipher suites.
There is also Mozilla Cipherscan too.
engine
Posts with mentions or reviews of engine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-18.
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CryptoLyzer: A comprehensive cryptographic settings analyzer
It is not just a theory. A special fork of OpenSSL, maintained by Pluralsight author Peter Mosmans, aims to have as many ciphers as possible. This fork is used and recommended by Mozilla Cipherscan, however, it can offer less than two hundred cipher suites, but there are more than three hundred in the different RFCs according to Cipher Suite Info. The majority of them are weak or insecure, which makes it particularly important to be part of the analysis. In addition, it is also true that there are cipher suites that are not on the Cipher Suite Info list, for instance, Russian standard (GOST) cipher suites. These are rarely used cipher suites, but there is an OpenSSL engine that implements them, so they should be checked.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cipherscan and engine you can also consider the following projects:
sslyze - Fast and powerful SSL/TLS scanning library.
tls-scan - An Internet scale, blazing fast SSL/TLS scanner ( non-blocking, event-driven )
SchannelConfiguration - Configure SChannel Security Settings via Group Policy
OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library
cmcollctr - Collection Commander
wolfssl - The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!
testssl.sh - Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port
openssl - 'Extra featured' OpenSSL with ChaCha20 and Poly1305 support
warehouse - The Python Package Index