LibreSSL vs GnuPG

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. (by libressl)

Cryptography libressl C Openbsd Openssl SSL TLS

Source Code

libressl.org

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GnuPG

Mirror of git://git.gnupg.org/gnupg.git — master branch contains no changes from upstream. (by mtigas)

Cryptography

Source Code

lists.gnupg.org

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LibreSSL		GnuPG
	Project
2	Mentions	-
1,315	Stars	0
2.7%	Growth	-
9.6	Activity	0.0
about 20 hours ago	Latest Commit	over 10 years ago
C	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

LibreSSL

Posts with mentions or reviews of LibreSSL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life Approaching
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2023
[gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued
2 projects | /r/Gentoo | 3 Jan 2021

On the plus side they have Ed25519, on the negative side we don't have BLAKE2 or X25519, etc.

GnuPG

Posts with mentions or reviews of GnuPG. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning GnuPG yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LibreSSL and GnuPG you can also consider the following projects:

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

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.

GnuTLS - GnuTLS

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

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

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

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