Crypto++ VS Themis

Compare Crypto++ vs Themis and see what are their differences.

Crypto++

free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes (by weidai11)

Themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms. (by cossacklabs)
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Crypto++ Themis
6 2
4,547 1,807
- 0.8%
8.0 5.9
about 1 month ago 3 months ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Crypto++

Posts with mentions or reviews of Crypto++. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.

Themis

Posts with mentions or reviews of Themis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Crypto++ and Themis you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

DOMPurify - DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

tweetnacl-java - TweetNaCl in Java - a port of TweetNaCl-js

libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

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

snyk - Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities. [Moved to: https://github.com/snyk/cli]

LibTomCrypt - LibTomCrypt is a fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo-random number generators, public key cryptography and a plethora of other routines.

NeDB - The JavaScript Database, for Node.js, nw.js, electron and the browser

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.

Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.