PyNacl
Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library (by pyca)
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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.
Passlib
Posts with mentions or reviews of Passlib.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
PyNacl
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyNacl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-20.
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pgcrypto question
In my experience, using the pgcrypto module is a little clunky - it's often better for the application to be responsible for encryption and decryption (using something like Fernet or libsodium bindings) and writing into a bytea column.
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monero-python 0.99 is released, testers welcome!
Finally I managed to replace the slow pure-Python reference implementation of Ed25519 cryptography with pynacl which is a binding to libsodium, the industry standard lightning-fast C library.
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Look-up tables for bcrypt, scrypt and Argon2?
PyNaCl Argon2i
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Passlib and PyNacl you can also consider the following projects:
cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit