gosession vs branca

gosession

This is quick session for net/http in GoLang. This package is perhaps the best implementation of the session mechanism, at least it tries to become one. (by Kwynto)

Authentication and OAuth

Source Code

github.com

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branca

:key: Secure alternative to JWT. Authenticated Encrypted API Tokens for Go. (by hako)

Authentication and OAuth Go Golang xchacha20-poly1305 token-authetication JWT Branca token-authentication Crypto Cryptography API api-token

Source Code

branca.io

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gosession		branca
	Project
-	Mentions	2
-	Stars	171
-	Growth	-
-	Activity	0.0
-	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

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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.

gosession

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning gosession yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

branca

Posts with mentions or reviews of branca. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.

Paseto is everything you love about JWT without any of the design deficits
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2022
SAML is insecure by design
2 projects | /r/programming | 6 Aug 2021

Better alternatives would be PASETO or Branca.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gosession and branca you can also consider the following projects:

Ory Keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.

paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens implementation in GO (Golang)

sjwt - Simple JWT Golang

scs - HTTP Session Management for Go

paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens

securecookie - Fast, secure and efficient secure cookie encoder/decoder

go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication.

cookiestxt - cookiestxt implement parser of cookies txt format

scope - Easily Manage OAuth2 Scopes In Go

sessiongate-go - A driver for the SessionGate Redis module - easy session management using the Go language.