hydroxide VS go-crypto

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

hydroxide

A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge (by emersion)

go-crypto

Fork of go/x/crypto, providing an up-to-date OpenPGP implementation (by ProtonMail)
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hydroxide go-crypto
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1,442 307
- 2.9%
3.9 5.2
13 days ago 29 days ago
Go Go
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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hydroxide

Posts with mentions or reviews of hydroxide. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

proton-bridge - Proton Mail Bridge application

go - The Go programming language

proton-bridge - ProtonMail Bridge application

SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

ElectronMail - Unofficial ProtonMail Desktop App

gopenpgp - A high-level OpenPGP library

baikal-docker - Provides a ready-to-go Baikal server, incl. docker-compose.yml & Systemd service file

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

docker-radicale - :calendar: Docker image for Radicale calendar and contact server + security :closed_lock_with_key: + addons :rocket:

docker-swag - Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with php support and a built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client. It also contains fail2ban for intrusion prevention.

protonmail-bridge-docker - ProtonMail IMAP/SMTP Bridge Docker container

EteSync Server - The Etebase server (so you can run your own)