Lockbox vs Obfuscator-iOS

Lockbox

Objective-C utility class for storing data securely in the key chain. (by granoff)

Security

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Obfuscator-iOS

Secure your app by obfuscating all the hard-coded security-sensitive strings. (by pjebs)

Security

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

Lockbox		Obfuscator-iOS
	Project
-	Mentions	1
850	Stars	629
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Objective-C	Language	Objective-C
MIT License	License	MIT 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.

Lockbox

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

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

Obfuscator-iOS

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

I've made a video with Anastasiia Voitova to discuss how unsafe it actually is to store any sensitive information–like an API key–inside the resources of an app. People seemed to have found it useful, so I'm sharing it here 🙌
1 project | /r/swift | 8 Sep 2021

Why bother using something as complicated as https://github.com/pjebs/Obfuscator-iOS when it can be defeated in a couple of minutes using Proxyman? I don't even have to bother decrypting the ipa using frida.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lockbox and Obfuscator-iOS you can also consider the following projects:

Swift-Sodium - Safe and easy to use crypto for iOS and macOS

Locksmith - A powerful, protocol-oriented library for working with the keychain in Swift.

cocoapods-keys - A key value store for storing per-developer environment and application keys

Valet - Valet lets you securely store data in the iOS, tvOS, or macOS Keychain without knowing a thing about how the Keychain works. It’s easy. We promise.

CommonCrypto.swift - :trident: CommonCrypto in Swift, and more

Smile-Lock - A library for make a beautiful Passcode Lock View

🗄 Vault

SipHash - Simple and secure hashing in Swift with the SipHash algorithm

SSKeychain

Keychain - :key: A keychain wrapper that is so easy to use that your cat could use it.