libsodium VS cryptography

Compare libsodium vs cryptography and see what are their differences.

libsodium

A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library. (by jedisct1)

cryptography

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. (by pyca)
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libsodium cryptography
30 70
11,852 6,226
- 2.5%
8.7 9.9
25 days ago about 21 hours ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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libsodium

Posts with mentions or reviews of libsodium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-14.

cryptography

Posts with mentions or reviews of cryptography. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libsodium and cryptography you can also consider the following projects:

PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

pycryptodome - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python

pyOpenSSL -- A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library - A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library

PyNacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library

Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol 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.

Passlib

libhydrogen - A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

Bcrypt - Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers