socketwrapper VS libzt

Compare socketwrapper vs libzt and see what are their differences.

socketwrapper

Async/Sync networking library including UDP, TCP and TLS/TCP socket classes written in C++ 17 that utilizes epoll and kqueue as backend. (by tglane)

libzt

Encrypted P2P sockets over ZeroTier (by zerotier)
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socketwrapper libzt
1 5
37 139
- 8.6%
3.5 6.8
26 days ago 8 days ago
C++ C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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socketwrapper

Posts with mentions or reviews of socketwrapper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-09.

libzt

Posts with mentions or reviews of libzt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-05.
  • "Jellyfin remote" with zerotier?
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 5 Apr 2022
    It would be great if that functionality could be integrated directly into the jellyfin server and apps. libzt has good support for all the languages that jellyfin and it's clients use.
  • What are the most important metrics for measuring cloud and endpoint security?
    5 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 5 Dec 2021
    BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/ Specific graphic from BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Failure_Before.jpg How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J4XYM16/ Monte Carlo simulation approach: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/red-teaming-and-monte-carlo-simulations/ D3FEND: https://d3fend.mitre.org/ ATT&CK mappings: https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/attack-control-framework-mappings ATT&CK evals: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/index.html CALDERA: https://github.com/mitre/caldera Offensive Countermeasures: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974671690/ SPIFFE: https://spiffe.io/ SPIRE: https://github.com/spiffe/spire Zerotier: https://www.zerotier.com/ Zerotier libzt: https://github.com/zerotier/libzt
  • I created a small game. Is it possible to make it multiplayer with ZeroTier?
    1 project | /r/zerotier | 28 Nov 2021
    Basically you have to make it work within the LAN yourself, then you can use Zerotier (or even libzt) to make it work over the internet.
  • Use case for zt - managed IT services provider
    1 project | /r/zerotier | 7 Jul 2021
  • How to verify membership in a private Peer to Peer network with flask?
    1 project | /r/flask | 26 Dec 2020
    Take a look at zerotier it's open source, they offer a free tier and you can even bake it directly into your app(they have a library on GitHub lizbt. Unless you are willing to become a security analyst don't roll your own crypto it's never worth it, use a vpn or something https based.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing socketwrapper and libzt you can also consider the following projects:

winsock - Windows socket affordances

libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets