Paramiko VS cryptography

Compare Paramiko vs cryptography and see what are their differences.

Paramiko

The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library. (by paramiko)

cryptography

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. (by pyca)
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Paramiko cryptography
11 70
8,773 6,226
0.9% 2.5%
8.0 9.9
27 days ago about 21 hours ago
Python Python
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Paramiko

Posts with mentions or reviews of Paramiko. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.

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 Paramiko and cryptography you can also consider the following projects:

PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit

pycryptodome - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python

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

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

Passlib

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

hashids - Implementation of hashids (http://hashids.org) in Python. Compatible with Python 2 and Python 3