quicly VS openssl

Compare quicly vs openssl and see what are their differences.

quicly

A modular QUIC stack designed primarily for H2O (by h2o)

openssl

TLS/SSL and crypto library with QUIC APIs (by quictls)
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quicly openssl
1 4
594 347
2.4% 1.2%
8.8 0.0
4 days ago 6 days ago
C C
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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quicly

Posts with mentions or reviews of quicly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
  • QUIC is now RFC 9000
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2021
    Is it possible to compile quicly cli (referenced in the blog post) with musl instead of glibc. I had to add signal.h and it then compiled successfully but I got illegal instruction segfault when executing cli.

    https://github.com/h2o/quicly

    There are a few Rust alternatives for QUIC. Anyone tried them and have comments.

    https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche

    https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn

    https://github.com/mozilla/neqo

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 2022-11-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing quicly and openssl you can also consider the following projects:

neqo - Neqo, an implementation of QUIC in Rust

msquic - Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.

openmptcprouter - OpenMPTCProuter is an open source solution to aggregate multiple internet connections using Multipath TCP (MPTCP) on OpenWrt

quiche - 🥧 Savoury implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3

usrsctp - A portable SCTP userland stack

sctp - A Go implementation of SCTP

base-drafts - Internet-Drafts that make up the base QUIC specification

quinn - Async-friendly QUIC implementation in Rust