libhydrogen VS Bcrypt

Compare libhydrogen vs Bcrypt and see what are their differences.

libhydrogen

A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments. (by jedisct1)

Bcrypt

Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers (by pyca)
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libhydrogen Bcrypt
5 3
573 1,110
- 1.9%
7.3 9.1
25 days ago 2 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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libhydrogen

Posts with mentions or reviews of libhydrogen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-22.

Bcrypt

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libhydrogen and Bcrypt you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

mbedTLS - An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.

Tiny AES128 in C - Small portable AES128/192/256 in C

LibreSSL - LibreSSL Portable itself. This includes the build scaffold and compatibility layer that builds portable LibreSSL from the OpenBSD source code. Pull requests or patches sent to [email protected] are welcome.

mbedcrypto - a portable, small, easy to use and fast c++14 library for cryptography.

Monocypher - An easy to use, easy to deploy crypto library

GnuPG - Mirror of git://git.gnupg.org/gnupg.git — master branch contains no changes from upstream.