simple-scrypt VS memguard

Compare simple-scrypt vs memguard and see what are their differences.

simple-scrypt

A convenience library for generating, comparing and inspecting password hashes using the scrypt KDF in Go 🔑 (by elithrar)

memguard

Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory. (by awnumar)
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simple-scrypt memguard
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192 2,486
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0.0 5.1
about 3 years ago 18 days ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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simple-scrypt

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

memguard

Posts with mentions or reviews of memguard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-25.
  • Kure - CLI password manager
    9 projects | /r/golang | 25 Feb 2021
    No, it does not touch the disk, the buffer resides in memory and is protected using memguard, you can find more details in its documentation.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing simple-scrypt and memguard you can also consider the following projects:

Lean and Mean Docker containers - Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

Cameradar - Cameradar hacks its way into RTSP videosurveillance cameras

BadActor - BadActor.org An in-memory application driven jailer written in Go

lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

acmetool - :lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)

argon2-hashing - A light package for generating and comparing password hashing with argon2 in Go

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

passlib - :key: Idiotproof golang password validation library inspired by Python's passlib

secure - HTTP middleware for Go that facilitates some quick security wins.

goSecretBoxPassword - A probably paranoid Golang utility library for securely hashing and encrypting passwords based on the Dropbox method. This implementation uses Blake2b, Scrypt and XSalsa20-Poly1305 (via NaCl SecretBox) to create secure password hashes that are also encrypted using a master passphrase.