Themis VS acra

Compare Themis vs acra and see what are their differences.

Themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms. (by cossacklabs)
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Themis acra
2 4
1,807 6,219
0.4% 0.4%
5.9 9.2
3 months ago 7 days ago
C Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Themis

Posts with mentions or reviews of Themis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-12.
  • Backstage: cryptographic R&D internship at Cossack Labs
    4 projects | dev.to | 12 May 2021
    Now, the real world work starts. We introduce interns to the world of popular cryptographic libraries, help them to make their first OSS contributions, and let them practice with our cryptographic library Themis which provides a high-level crypto API on 14 languages.

acra

Posts with mentions or reviews of acra. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-01.
  • Why does F-droid have trackers?
    3 projects | /r/fdroid | 1 Jan 2021
    Why AM considers ACRA as tracker (and not logger like AppWarden does)? See the README page: https://github.com/ACRA/acra. It explicitly states that ACRA can be used to send not only the crash reports but also other information directly from the app if the app has the INTERNET permission. This is what makes it a tracker because it can send information to the server without any user intervention or consent. F-Droid doesn’t use this feature (and probably many apps don’t) but that’s left for the user to find out. But if people didn’t know about the existence of this tracker, they would never ask F-Droid for an explanation. A tracker is a tracker regardless of who use them. If AM used some form of whitelists, that would raise the question of authoritarianism.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Themis and acra you can also consider the following projects:

DOMPurify - DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:

tweetnacl-java - TweetNaCl in Java - a port of TweetNaCl-js

cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

snyk - Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities. [Moved to: https://github.com/snyk/cli]

NeDB - The JavaScript Database, for Node.js, nw.js, electron and the browser

Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

js-xss - Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist

CryptoSwift - CryptoSwift is a growing collection of standard and secure cryptographic algorithms implemented in Swift

android-security-awesome - A collection of android security related resources

RegEx-DoS - :cop: :punch: RegEx Denial of Service (ReDos) Scanner

libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.