libzt VS spire

Compare libzt vs spire and see what are their differences.

libzt

Encrypted P2P sockets over ZeroTier (by zerotier)

spire

The SPIFFE Runtime Environment (by spiffe)
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libzt spire
5 4
139 1,665
8.6% 2.6%
6.8 9.7
9 days ago 7 days ago
C++ Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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libzt

Posts with mentions or reviews of libzt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-05.
  • "Jellyfin remote" with zerotier?
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 5 Apr 2022
    It would be great if that functionality could be integrated directly into the jellyfin server and apps. libzt has good support for all the languages that jellyfin and it's clients use.
  • What are the most important metrics for measuring cloud and endpoint security?
    5 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 5 Dec 2021
    BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/ Specific graphic from BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Failure_Before.jpg How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J4XYM16/ Monte Carlo simulation approach: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/red-teaming-and-monte-carlo-simulations/ D3FEND: https://d3fend.mitre.org/ ATT&CK mappings: https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/attack-control-framework-mappings ATT&CK evals: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/index.html CALDERA: https://github.com/mitre/caldera Offensive Countermeasures: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974671690/ SPIFFE: https://spiffe.io/ SPIRE: https://github.com/spiffe/spire Zerotier: https://www.zerotier.com/ Zerotier libzt: https://github.com/zerotier/libzt
  • I created a small game. Is it possible to make it multiplayer with ZeroTier?
    1 project | /r/zerotier | 28 Nov 2021
    Basically you have to make it work within the LAN yourself, then you can use Zerotier (or even libzt) to make it work over the internet.
  • Use case for zt - managed IT services provider
    1 project | /r/zerotier | 7 Jul 2021
  • How to verify membership in a private Peer to Peer network with flask?
    1 project | /r/flask | 26 Dec 2020
    Take a look at zerotier it's open source, they offer a free tier and you can even bake it directly into your app(they have a library on GitHub lizbt. Unless you are willing to become a security analyst don't roll your own crypto it's never worth it, use a vpn or something https based.

spire

Posts with mentions or reviews of spire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-21.
  • How to automate certificate renewal with Azure Key vault?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Nov 2022
    If this seems a bit complicated, you could use SPIRE server to issue certificates and Otterize SPIRE integration operator to renew them in Kubernetes and update Secrets.
  • Spire - The spiffe runtime environment
    1 project | /r/github_trends | 12 Jun 2022
  • What are the most important metrics for measuring cloud and endpoint security?
    5 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 5 Dec 2021
    BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/ Specific graphic from BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Failure_Before.jpg How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J4XYM16/ Monte Carlo simulation approach: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/red-teaming-and-monte-carlo-simulations/ D3FEND: https://d3fend.mitre.org/ ATT&CK mappings: https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/attack-control-framework-mappings ATT&CK evals: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/index.html CALDERA: https://github.com/mitre/caldera Offensive Countermeasures: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974671690/ SPIFFE: https://spiffe.io/ SPIRE: https://github.com/spiffe/spire Zerotier: https://www.zerotier.com/ Zerotier libzt: https://github.com/zerotier/libzt
  • Zero-trust networking for bare-metal systems, using Rust.
    1 project | /r/blueteamsec | 13 Mar 2021
    The effort to get this going seems the same or more than to get something like this rolling out. spire what do you see as the benefit of your approach.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libzt and spire you can also consider the following projects:

libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets

spiffe-vault - Integrates Spiffe and Vault to have secretless authentication

GameNetworkingSockets - Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.

cosign - Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

in-toto-golang - A Go implementation of in-toto. in-toto is a framework to protect software supply chain integrity.

tinyfecVPN - A VPN Designed for Lossy Links, with Build-in Forward Error Correction(FEC) Support. Improves your Network Quality on a High-latency Lossy Link.

Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

turbo-beep - Peer to peer file sharing and messaging between different networks including server acting as a mediator (TCP hole punching).

husarnet - Husarnet is a Peer-to-Peer VPN to connect your laptops, servers and microcontrollers over the Internet with zero configuration.

attack-control-framework-mappings - 🚨ATTENTION🚨 The NIST 800-53 mappings have migrated to the Center’s Mappings Explorer project. See README below. This repository is kept here as an archive.