OpenSSL VS acme.sh

Compare OpenSSL vs acme.sh and see what are their differences.

acme.sh

A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol (by acmesh-official)
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OpenSSL acme.sh
147 276
23,945 36,065
1.5% 2.5%
9.9 8.8
7 days ago 1 day ago
C Shell
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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OpenSSL

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenSSL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-29.

acme.sh

Posts with mentions or reviews of acme.sh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenSSL and acme.sh you can also consider the following projects:

GnuTLS - GnuTLS

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

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.

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

LibreSSL - 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.

cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

easy-rsa - easy-rsa - Simple shell based CA utility

letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

LibTomCrypt - LibTomCrypt is a fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo-random number generators, public key cryptography and a plethora of other routines.

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

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface