securecookie vs gatekeeper

securecookie

Package gorilla/securecookie encodes and decodes authenticated and optionally encrypted cookie values for Go web applications. (by gorilla)

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gatekeeper

An OpenID / Proxy service (by gogatekeeper)

Authentication Authorization oidc-proxy Opa uma

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gogatekeeper.github.io

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securecookie		gatekeeper
	Project
2	Mentions	2
604	Stars	238
-	Growth	3.4%
10.0	Activity	8.7
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	Apache License 2.0

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securecookie

Posts with mentions or reviews of securecookie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.

The Gorilla web toolkit project is being revived, all repos are out of archive mode.
5 projects | /r/golang | 12 Jul 2023

Nice, I always liked using https://github.com/gorilla/securecookie and hope it continues to be supported.
How to Use OAuth to Add Authentication to Your React App
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2021

Sign it as well!
For instance: https://github.com/gorilla/securecookie

gatekeeper

Posts with mentions or reviews of gatekeeper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-14.

SSO - For Plex, Emby and AudioBookShelf etc... How are you exposing these for remote access?
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 Nov 2022

There are other solutions as well like gatekeeper.
How to Use OAuth to Add Authentication to Your React App
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2021

I'm considering something similar for protecting some simple ML serving API endpoints. Just put a proxy in between.
Something like
https://github.com/gogatekeeper/gatekeeper/blob/master/docs/...
It's no problem to set up Django, but I don't want to have to separately protect all public endpoints.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing securecookie and gatekeeper you can also consider the following projects:

otpgo - Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) and HMAC-Based One-Time Password (HOTP) library for Go.

OpenID - OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect Relying Party implementation for Apache HTTP Server 2.x

frank_jwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Rust.

Ory Kratos - Next-gen identity server replacing your Auth0, Okta, Firebase with hardened security and PassKeys, SMS, OIDC, Social Sign In, MFA, FIDO, TOTP and OTP, WebAuthn, passwordless and much more. Golang, headless, API-first. Available as a worry-free SaaS with the fairest pricing on the market!

traefik-forward-auth - Minimal forward authentication service that provides Google/OpenID oauth based login and authentication for the traefik reverse proxy

go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication.

chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

jeff - 🍍Jeff provides the simplest way to manage web sessions in Go.

optic - A simplified, generic, entity based web library for golang that's drop in compatible with net/http