mkcert VS minica

Compare mkcert vs minica and see what are their differences.

mkcert

A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like. (by FiloSottile)

minica

minica is a small, simple CA intended for use in situations where the CA operator also operates each host where a certificate will be used. (by jsha)
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mkcert minica
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45,338 2,869
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0.0 4.4
23 days ago 4 months ago
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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mkcert

Posts with mentions or reviews of mkcert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.

minica

Posts with mentions or reviews of minica. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mkcert and minica you can also consider the following projects:

nginx-docker-ssl-proxy - A docker way to access localhost:8081 from https://local.dev

certificates - 🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

gosumemory - Cross-Platform memory reader for osu!

rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust

uvicorn - An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄

WSL - Issues found on WSL

Next.js - The React Framework

ddev - Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments

traefik-certs-dumper - Dump ACME data from Traefik to certificates

shopify-app-sveltekit

docker-swag - Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with php support and a built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client. It also contains fail2ban for intrusion prevention.

tailscale-systray - Linux port of tailscale system tray menu.