mundane VS rage

Compare mundane vs rage and see what are their differences.

mundane

Mundane is a Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL that is difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant (in that order). (by google)

rage

A simple, secure and modern file encryption tool (and Rust library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. (by str4d)
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mundane rage
4 36
1,070 2,310
0.4% -
0.0 9.1
10 months ago 9 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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mundane

Posts with mentions or reviews of mundane. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-05.
  • Crates for helping with C FFI?
    1 project | /r/rust | 25 Oct 2022
    I'm the author of Mundane, which wraps BoringSSL, which is written in C. We have some internal utilities which make it safer to work with C objects by doing a certain amount of automatic memory management and lifecycle tracking.
  • SAML Is Insecure by Design
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2021
    Most problems with security specs and libraries that implement them are communication problems. They involve people incompletely describing or understanding their requirements, capabilities, or threat model. Usually this also involves providing/using interfaces that are not ergonomic (https://github.com/google/mundane/blob/master/DESIGN.md), which in turn comes from the spec trying to do too much (as XML Signature does).

    I don't know how GPT could help with that. If anything I would expect it to bias toward things it has already seen, which is the opposite of what you want when writing a new spec/library aiming to avoid past mistakes.

  • Void Linux: "Switching back to OpenSSL"
    2 projects | /r/linux | 28 Feb 2021
    I'm quite intrigued by mundane which is cryptography library with a Rust interface that contains lots of code from OpenSSL (via BoringSSL, which is a fork of OpenSSL).
  • How to implement a simple password-based encryption with ring?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 21 Jan 2021
    (https://sequoia-pgp.org/, https://github.com/google/mundane, etc)

rage

Posts with mentions or reviews of rage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mundane and rage you can also consider the following projects:

saml-idp - Simple SAML Identity Provider (IdP)

age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

RustCrypto - Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data Algorithms: high-level encryption ciphers

PasswordPusher - 🔐 An application to securely communicate passwords over the web. Passwords automatically expire after a certain number of views and/or time has passed. Track who, what and when.

shib-sp - Containerized Shibboleth SP

age-plugin-yubikey - YubiKey plugin for age

ASP.NET SAML - Very simple SAML 2.0 consumer module for ASP.NET/C#

croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

orion - Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto [Moved to: https://github.com/orion-rs/orion]

tarssh - A simple SSH tarpit inspired by endlessh

fusionauth-samlv2 - SAML v2.0 bindings in Java using JAXB

wormhole-gui - Cross-platform application for easy encrypted file, folder, and text sharing between devices. [Moved to: https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport]