OpenSSL VS cryptography

Compare OpenSSL vs cryptography and see what are their differences.

cryptography

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. (by pyca)
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OpenSSL cryptography
149 70
24,090 6,280
1.3% 2.2%
9.9 9.9
6 days ago about 2 hours ago
C Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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 2024-04-07.

cryptography

Posts with mentions or reviews of cryptography. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.

What are some alternatives?

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

GnuTLS - GnuTLS

PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit

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

pycryptodome - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python

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.

pyOpenSSL -- A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library - A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library

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

PyNacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) 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.

Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit

Passlib