memguard VS simple-scrypt

Compare memguard vs simple-scrypt and see what are their differences.

memguard

Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory. (by awnumar)

simple-scrypt

A convenience library for generating, comparing and inspecting password hashes using the scrypt KDF in Go 🔑 (by elithrar)
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memguard simple-scrypt
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2,486 192
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5.1 0.0
16 days ago about 3 years ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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memguard

Posts with mentions or reviews of memguard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-25.
  • Kure - CLI password manager
    9 projects | /r/golang | 25 Feb 2021
    No, it does not touch the disk, the buffer resides in memory and is protected using memguard, you can find more details in its documentation.

simple-scrypt

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning simple-scrypt yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing memguard and simple-scrypt you can also consider the following projects:

Cameradar - Cameradar hacks its way into RTSP videosurveillance cameras

Lean and Mean Docker containers - Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

BadActor - BadActor.org An in-memory application driven jailer written in Go

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

lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

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

argon2-hashing - A light package for generating and comparing password hashing with argon2 in Go

secure - HTTP middleware for Go that facilitates some quick security wins.

passlib - :key: Idiotproof golang password validation library inspired by Python's passlib

goSecretBoxPassword - A probably paranoid Golang utility library for securely hashing and encrypting passwords based on the Dropbox method. This implementation uses Blake2b, Scrypt and XSalsa20-Poly1305 (via NaCl SecretBox) to create secure password hashes that are also encrypted using a master passphrase.