go-crypto VS FairEmail

Compare go-crypto vs FairEmail and see what are their differences.

go-crypto

Fork of go/x/crypto, providing an up-to-date OpenPGP implementation (by ProtonMail)
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FairEmail

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android (by M66B)
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go-crypto

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-crypto. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023
    > One camp (Open) wants to move faster and break backward compatibility, the other (Libre) wants to move slower and maintain backwards compatibility

    There is no breaking of backward compatibility. The crypto-refresh draft and the LibrePGP draft are equally backward-compatible.

    See 'A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”':

    * https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique

    Both groups would create a new format (Libre = v5; crypto-refresh = v6), and both would support the v4. The Proton folks are choosing to support both v5 and v6:

    * https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto/pull/182

  • Updated Proton, Unified Protection
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2022
    Kudos for taking the baton and maintaining https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto which should replace Keybase's fork everywhere. Terraform and providers such as AWS now use it instead.
  • x/crypto/openpgp is frozen and deprecated
    3 projects | /r/golang | 29 Mar 2021
    Their replacement for x/crypto/openpgp is here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto

FairEmail

Posts with mentions or reviews of FairEmail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-crypto and FairEmail you can also consider the following projects:

hydroxide - A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge

k-9 - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/thundernest/k-9]

go - The Go programming language

email-oauth2-proxy - An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

thunderbird-android - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android

gopenpgp - A high-level OpenPGP library

k9mail

webclient - Angular webclient (with Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients) for CTemplar's encrypted email service.

Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app

izzyondroid

Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

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