OpenSSL VS gnupg

Compare OpenSSL vs gnupg and see what are their differences.

gnupg

Patches to GnuPG smartcard support (bigger keys, better error handling) (by chrisboyle)
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OpenSSL gnupg
150 15
24,186 2
1.7% -
9.9 0.0
1 day ago about 13 years ago
C C
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 2024-04-26.
  • RVM Ruby 2.6.0 — built with custom openssl version on Ubuntu 22.04
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2024
    ENV OPENSSL_PREFIX=/opt/openssl ENV SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt WORKDIR /tmp RUN git clone --branch OpenSSL_1_0_2n https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git RUN cd openssl RUN ./config shared --prefix=$OPENSSL_PREFIX --openssldir=$OPENSSL_PREFIX/ssl RUN make RUN make install RUN rvm install 2.6.0 -C --with-openssl-dir=$OPENSSL_PREFIX ENV PATH /usr/local/rvm/bin:$PATH RUN rvm --default use ruby-2.6.0 ENV PATH /usr/local/rvm/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.0/bin:$PATH ENV GEM_HOME /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0
  • Heartbleed and XZ Backdoor Learnings: Open Source Infrastructure Can Be Improved Efficiently With Moderate Funding
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2024
    Today, April 7th, 2024, marks the 10-year anniversary since CVE-2014-0160 was published. This security vulnerability known as "Heartbleed" was a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptography software, the most popular option to implement Transport Layer Security (TLS). In more layman's terms, if you type https:// in your browser address bar, chances are high that you are interacting with OpenSSL.
  • Ask HN: How does the xz backdoor replace RSA_public_decrypt?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
    At this point I pretty much understand the entire process on how the xz backdoor came to be: its execution stages, extraction from binary "test" files etc. But one thing puzzles me: how can the ifunc mechanism be used to replace something like RSA_public_decrypt? Granted this probably stems from my lack of understanding of ifunc, but I was under the impression that in order for the ifunc mechanism to work in your code, you have to explicitly mark specific function with multiple implementations with __attribute__ ((ifunc ("the_resolver_function"))). Looking at the source code of the RSA function in question, ifunc attribute isn't present:

    https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/rsa/rsa_crpt.c#L51

    So how does the backdoor actually replace the call? Does this means that the ifunc mechanism can be used to override pretty much anything on the system?

  • Use of HTTPS Resource Records
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
    OpenSSL and Go crypt/tls has no support yet, so none of the webservers that depend on them support it. Apache, Nginx, and Caddy, they all need upstream ECH support first.

    - https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482

    - https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22938

    - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63369

  • openssl-3.2.0 released
    1 project | /r/linux | 25 Nov 2023
  • Large performance degradation in OpenSSL 3
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
  • OpenSSL 3.2 Alpha 2
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2023
  • Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    If I'm understanding the draft correctly, I think the webserver you're hosting your sites on would need it implemented as it requires private keys and ECH configuration. In the example of nginx since it uses openssl, openssl would need to implement it. I found an issue on their Github but it's still open: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/7482
  • eBPF Practical Tutorial: Capturing SSL/TLS Plain Text Data Using uprobe
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Sep 2023
  • OpenSSL Versions... whats the plan here
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 19 Aug 2023
    I confirmed that the systm was on 1.1.1f with openssl version command. Hmm...... I check the openssl version in the repo with apt list... LOL package names wernt helpful. finally went to the repo pages and found that its still on 1.1.1f, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl. Meenwhile I looked up the version history on https://www.openssl.org/ and saw that 1.1.1v was released at the beginning of this month... ok. I can understand it it was out less then 30 days. I looked up when f came out, end of MARCH 2020. NEARLY 3-1/2 YEARS

gnupg

Posts with mentions or reviews of gnupg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
  • YOUR OPSEC SUCKS | UHQ SCHIZOID OPSEC GUIDE | BECOME BULLETPROOF
    4 projects | /r/make_money_online_vip | 2 Apr 2023
    Here are some links to PGP software and guides. Guide on PGP: http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/beginners-guide-to-pgp/ GNU Privacy Guard (alternative): https://www.gnupg.org/ GPG for Windows: http://www.gpg4win.org/ GPG for USB: http://www.gpg4usb.org/
  • SryRMS: A bash script to help install some popular proprietary as well as libre applications not available in the official repositories of Ubuntu.
    2 projects | /r/bash | 7 Mar 2023
    function Main_Menu (){ if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then - printf "\033c" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "You must run \"sryrms\" script using \"sudo\" or as the root user." - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "Hint : \"sudo sryrms\" or \"su -c 'sryrms'\"" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - tput sgr0 + msgbox "You must run \"sryrms\" script using \"sudo\" or as the root user." \ + "Hint : \"sudo sryrms\" or \"su -c 'sryrms'\"" exit 1 fi if ! wget --spider --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20100101" --no-check-certificate --quiet --timeout=30 -q "www.google.com" -O /dev/null; then - printf "\033c" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "No active internet connection available!!" - echo -e '\e[38;5;82m' "Please check your internet connectivity!!" - echo "" - { for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; } - echo "" - tput sgr0 + msgbox "No active internet connection available!!" + "Please check your internet connectivity!!" exit 1 fi - type wget >/dev/null 2>&1 || { printf "\033c"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"A required SryRMS dependency \"Wget\" is unavailable"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"\"Wget\" is available for almost all linux distros."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please install \"wget\" using your package manager."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please visit the homepage of \"Wget\" for more info"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; tput sgr0; exit 1; } - type gpg >/dev/null 2>&1 || { printf "\033c"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"A required SryRMS dependency \"GnuPG\" is unavailable"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"\"GnuPG\" is available for almost all linux distros."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please install \"gpg\" using your package manager."; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"Please visit the homepage of \"GnuPG\" for more info"; echo -e '\e[38;5;82m'"https://www.gnupg.org/"; echo -e ""; for i in {16..51} {51..16}; do echo -en "\e[38;5;${i}m#\e[0m"; done; echo; echo -e ""; tput sgr0; exit 1; } + type wget >/dev/null 2>&1 || { msgbox "A required SryRMS dependency \"Wget\" is unavailable" \ + "\"Wget\" is available for almost all linux distros." \ + "Please install \"wget\" using your package manager." \ + "Please visit the homepage of \"Wget\" for more info" \ + "https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/"; + exit 1; } + type gpg >/dev/null 2>&1 || { msgbox "A required SryRMS dependency \"GnuPG\" is unavailable" \ + "\"GnuPG\" is available for almost all linux distros." \ + "Please install \"gpg\" using your package manager." \ + "Please visit the homepage of \"GnuPG\" for more info" \ + "https://www.gnupg.org/" ... and so on
  • Changes Coming to MsgSafe
    1 project | /r/MsgSafe | 24 Jan 2023
    If you have any questions, concerns, or need additional help regarding these upcoming changes, please contact us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])or open a support ticket in our help portal. For help generating a GPG key, please visit: https://www.gnupg.org/.
  • Decrypting files in Azure blob with Azure automation
    2 projects | /r/AZURE | 15 Dec 2022
    Iterate through the list of blobs and decrypt each one. You will need to use a PGP decryption tool to perform the actual decryption. One option you can use is the gpg command-line tool, which is part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) package. You can download and install GnuPG from https://www.gnupg.org/.
  • Photopea: A Photoshop clone web app
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2022
    Commercially successful idea. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ probably much more successful that https://www.gnupg.org/ but there’s a nuance.

    Photopea is awesome on its own though. I really like to showcase it as an example of complete web app.

  • Una guía para compartir archivos en la Blockchain con IPFS
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Jul 2022
  • Assinatura de commits
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Jun 2022
    Nesse link: gnupg vemos que GNUPG é The GNU Privacy Guard.
  • Raycast
    1 project | /r/macapps | 5 Jun 2022
    Dependency: requires gpg (https://www.gnupg.org/)
  • How to actually protect your privacy with GPG
    1 project | /r/conspiracy | 18 Jan 2022
    The free and open-source version can be found here: https://www.gnupg.org/
  • Publicar um artefato Java no Maven Central utilizando o maven local
    1 project | dev.to | 26 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenSSL and gnupg you can also consider the following projects:

GnuTLS - GnuTLS

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

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

sshesame - An easy to set up and use SSH honeypot, a fake SSH server that lets anyone in and logs their activity

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.

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.

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

endlessh - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner

cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit