go-crypto VS gopenpgp

Compare go-crypto vs gopenpgp 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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go-crypto gopenpgp
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308 990
3.2% 1.7%
5.2 5.4
about 1 month ago 28 days ago
Go Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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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

gopenpgp

Posts with mentions or reviews of gopenpgp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

go - The Go programming language

dns-message-parser - Rust libary to encode and decode DNS packets

SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

Cargo - The Rust package manager