Themis VS Crypto++

Compare Themis vs Crypto++ 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)

Crypto++

free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes (by weidai11)
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Themis Crypto++
2 6
1,795 4,513
0.2% -
5.9 8.0
3 months ago 10 days ago
C C++
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

Crypto++

Posts with mentions or reviews of Crypto++. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.

What are some alternatives?

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

OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

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

Bcrypt - Modern(-ish) password hashing for your software and your servers

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:

LibTomCrypt - LibTomCrypt is a fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo-random number generators, public key cryptography and a plethora of other routines.

mbedTLS - An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.

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.