LibTomCrypt
LibTomCrypt is a fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo-random number generators, public key cryptography and a plethora of other routines. (by libtom)
ZLib
A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library. (by madler)
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| LibTomCrypt | ZLib | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 49 | |
| 1,477 | 5,278 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 7.3 | 8.9 | |
| 24 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
LibTomCrypt
Posts with mentions or reviews of LibTomCrypt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-15.
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What is the difference between sha512 and sha512_256?
The open source library libtomcrypto has two separate implementations of sha512. What is the difference between these implementations? Which is the version that would be most typically used?
- Single File sha256 Library from Git
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C Deep
libtomcrypt - Fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit. Public domain.
ZLib
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZLib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-25.
- Zlib 1.3.1 Out
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Vulnerability found after scanning debian 12 bookworm VM
A fix has been checked into the upstream git repo: https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/843 but a release has not yet been made including it.
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ZLib VS jdeflate - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 25 Nov 2023
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
So the real issue here is that the lack of tree validation before the tree construction, I believe. I'm surprised that this check was not yet implemented (I actually checked libwebp to make sure that I was missing one). Given this blind spot, an automated test based on the domain knowledge is likely useless to catch this bug.
[1] https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/master/examples/enough.c
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Notes: Advanced Node.js Concepts by Stephen Grider
In the source code of the Node.js opensource project, lib folder contains JavaScript code, mostly wrappers over C++ and function definitions. On the contrary, src folder contains C++ implementations of the functions, which pulls dependencies from the V8 project, the libuv project, the zlib project, the llhttp project, and many more - which are all placed at the deps folder.
- Zlib 1.3 · madler/zlib 09155ea
- Zlib 1.3 – A Spiffy yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library
- Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
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Dear Pirates Donate as much as you can
Seeing the text in red got me thinking for a moment, "wow, didn't realize pirates had such love for an open-source compression library"
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Updated packages: do Arch devs update/build the original source as is or...
cd "${srcdir}/zlib-$pkgver/contrib/minizip" make install DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/zlib-$pkgver/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/minizip/LICENSE" # https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/229 rm "${pkgdir}/usr/include/minizip/crypt.h"
What are some alternatives?
When comparing LibTomCrypt and ZLib you can also consider the following projects:
OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
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.
LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases
Tiny AES128 in C - Small portable AES128/192/256 in C
Onion - C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.