lego vs ACL

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lego		ACL
	Project
55	Mentions	-
7,269	Stars	2
2.0%	Growth	-
8.9	Activity	0.0
8 days ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
Go	Language	Go
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.

lego

Posts with mentions or reviews of lego. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.

Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024

Self contained but hardly a tiny supply chain attack surface: https://github.com/go-acme/lego/blob/master/go.sum
Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2023

This ACME client looks promising, but I haven’t tried it yet: https://github.com/go-acme/lego
I am once again asking that "web" and "fullstack" developers...
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 30 Aug 2023

My favorite method of obtaining certificates is with lets encrypt and LEGO
Where do you get/setup certificates from for your https/ssl?
3 projects | /r/oraclecloud | 7 Jul 2023

Caddy where possible, and acme.sh or lego where not.
Anyone using WireGuard with a domain name? Any ideas to lower the bills?
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 24 Jun 2023
Acme.sh runs arbitrary commands from a remote server
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2023
How do you renew SSL certificates?
6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 May 2023

Depend on host's capability... - lego - dehydrated - caddy - in case it already works as a web server, it will automatically issue and renew certs
Automating LE renewals with dns-01?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 21 May 2023
LeGo CertHub v0.9.0 with Docker Support
13 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 May 2023

u/gregtwallace maybe in the short term until you write your own, you could provide a hook into one of the many ACME client implementations which do DNS-01 and support the majority of major DNS provider APIs out of the box? That would make your (really great!) project much more widely usable.
Searching for a solution to get letsencrypt and traefik working for my local nas
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 7 May 2023

ACL

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lego and ACL you can also consider the following projects:

letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

nacl - Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of API's

acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol

acmetool - :lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)

acme-dns - Limited DNS server with RESTful HTTP API to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely.

go-yara - Go bindings for YARA

autocert - [mirror] Go supplementary cryptography libraries

Themis - Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

simple-scrypt - A convenience library for generating, comparing and inspecting password hashes using the scrypt KDF in Go 🔑

go-acl - Go support for Access Control Lists

acra - Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.