Paramiko VS PyNacl

Compare Paramiko vs PyNacl and see what are their differences.

Paramiko

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

PyNacl

Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library (by pyca)
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Paramiko PyNacl
11 3
8,800 1,030
0.7% 1.0%
8.0 5.3
7 days ago about 1 month ago
Python C
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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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.

PyNacl

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyNacl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Paramiko and PyNacl you can also consider the following projects:

cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

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

PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit

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

ContentHash for Python - Python implementation of EIP 1577 content hash