GnuPG vs LibreSSL

GnuPG

Mirror of git://git.gnupg.org/gnupg.git — master branch contains no changes from upstream. (by mtigas)

lists.gnupg.org

LibreSSL Portable itself. This includes the build scaffold and compatibility layer that builds portable LibreSSL from the OpenBSD source code. Pull requests or patches sent to [email protected] are welcome. (by libressl)

Cryptography libressl C Openbsd Openssl SSL TLS

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libressl.org

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GnuPG		LibreSSL
	Project
-	Mentions	2
0	Stars	1,315
-	Growth	2.7%
0.0	Activity	9.6
over 10 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

GnuPG

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning GnuPG yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

LibreSSL

Posts with mentions or reviews of LibreSSL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life Approaching
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2023
[gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued
2 projects | /r/Gentoo | 3 Jan 2021

On the plus side they have Ed25519, on the negative side we don't have BLAKE2 or X25519, etc.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GnuPG and LibreSSL you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

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.

GnuTLS - GnuTLS

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

Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

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

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit