autocert vs simple-scrypt

autocert

[mirror] Go supplementary cryptography libraries (by golang)

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simple-scrypt

A convenience library for generating, comparing and inspecting password hashes using the scrypt KDF in Go 🔑 (by elithrar)

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autocert		simple-scrypt
	Project
10	Mentions	0
2,929	Stars	192
0.9%	Growth	-
8.1	Activity	0.0
12 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

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autocert

Posts with mentions or reviews of autocert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

Current bcrypt is problematic I find. Made changes to core functionality. Looking for feedback
2 projects | /r/golang | 18 Sep 2023

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SHA-3 Buffer Overflow
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2022

The version in the Golang stdlib is a pure-go implementation, but there's an assembler variant optimized for amd64 (https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/sha3/keccakf_am...), which is apparently derived from the XKCP package.
Bad news for the (mostly-Golang) Ethereum ecosystem...
Web dev learning path advice
6 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jan 2022

Learn crypto library and how to encrypt and hash: https://github.com/golang/crypto
Minio Changes License to AGPL
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2021

simple-scrypt

Posts with mentions or reviews of simple-scrypt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning simple-scrypt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing autocert and simple-scrypt you can also consider the following projects:

lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

bitwarden-go - A Bitwarden-compatible server written in Golang

Lean and Mean Docker containers - Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

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

BadActor - BadActor.org An in-memory application driven jailer written in Go

passlib - :key: Idiotproof golang password validation library inspired by Python's passlib

argon2-hashing - A light package for generating and comparing password hashing with argon2 in Go

memguard - Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.

nacl - Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of API's

ACL - A simple but powerful Access Control List manager