rustls-native-certs vs rust-tls-api

rustls-native-certs

Integration with OS certificate stores for rustls (by rustls)

Rust TLS

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rust-tls-api

TLS API for Rust, and API implementations over native-tls and openssl in separate crates (by stepancheg)

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rustls-native-certs		rust-tls-api
	Project
2	Mentions	1
169	Stars	49
4.1%	Growth	-
7.5	Activity	4.4
4 months ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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rustls-native-certs

Posts with mentions or reviews of rustls-native-certs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.

A brief guide to choosing TLS crates
5 projects | /r/rust | 9 Jun 2023

Now for rust implementation of tls. Certificates can be loaded in two ways. * Finds and loads certificates using OS specific tools3 * Uses a rust implementation of webpki4 for loading with certificates5
Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (47/2021)!
12 projects | /r/rust | 22 Nov 2021

rust-tls-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-tls-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-04.

LibreSSL Languishes on Linux
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2021

Just to add to your point.
Rustls is excellent, but has a Rust API and does not do I/O. Its a great alternative for Rust applications but, for C/C++ applications, the API wrappers are needed [1]
[1] https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-tls-api

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rustls-native-certs and rust-tls-api you can also consider the following projects:

tokio-rustls - Async TLS for the Tokio runtime

s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols

tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

proxyboi - A super simple reverse proxy with TLS support

doku - 💽 Doku - Docker disk usage dashboard

mesalink - OpenSSL compatibility layer for the Rust SSL/TLS stack

clearscreen - Cross-platform terminal screen clearing library

sandwich - Sandwich is a multi-platform, multi-language, open-source library that provides a simple unified API for developers to use (multiple) cryptographic libraries in their applications.

rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

Rustlings - :crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!

doku - fn(Code) -> Docs

clear-terminal - Clearing Terminal output in Rust