GnuTLS vs Botan

GnuTLS

GnuTLS (by jothan)

Cryptography

Source Code

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Botan

Cryptography Toolkit (by randombit)

Cryptography Crypto cryptography-library TLS X509 C++

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botan.randombit.net

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GnuTLS		Botan
	Project
-	Mentions	5
3	Stars	2,414
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.8
almost 13 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

GnuTLS

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Botan

Posts with mentions or reviews of Botan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.

Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022

We can relate to that! It is extremely helpful for our current efforts to implement TLS 1.3 for the Botan crypto library. Especially to get a foothold with TLS and gain a feeling for the protocol structure. Amazing work!
https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2922
C++: simple and efficient library for encrypt and decrypt text, AES algorithm
4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 18 Oct 2021

I always liked botan. https://github.com/randombit/botan
Botan Fridays
1 project | /r/Kappa | 8 Oct 2021

Transport Layer Security in C++ learn to Google, bro.
[Ann] A new Haskell crypto lib: Z-Botan 0.1.1
1 project | /r/haskell | 11 May 2021

After hundreds of days working. I'm happy to announce that the very first version of Z-Botan is published, It's a new crypto lib built around the versatile botan C++ crypto lib. Currently, all crypto stuff exported by Botan FFI is implemented, i.e.:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GnuTLS and Botan you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

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.

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.

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

GnuPG - Mirror of git://git.gnupg.org/gnupg.git — master branch contains no changes from upstream.

s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols

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