Themis vs js-xss

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)

Source Code

cossacklabs.com

Docs

js-xss

Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist (by leizongmin)

#Security

Source Code

jsxss.com

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Themis		js-xss
	Project
2	Mentions	4
1,779	Stars	5,033
1.2%	Growth	-
5.5	Activity	0.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C	Language	HTML
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

js-xss

Posts with mentions or reviews of js-xss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.

Introducing xss-shield - protect your Express.js App from XSS Attacks
2 projects | /r/webdev | 25 Mar 2023

xss-shield is a powerful middleware package that helps you protect your express.js app from Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. It's built on top of the popular xss (https://www.npmjs.com/package/xss) package and includes additional features like strict typing
Browser extension - Integrate your features securely
2 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2021

There are a few libraries you can use to protect from xss. For instance the xss library on npm.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Themis and js-xss 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:

sanitize-html - Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance

xss-filters

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

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

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

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

Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

Retire.js - scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities. Can also generate an SBOM of the libraries it finds.

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

js-xss vs DOMPurify

Themis vs DOMPurify

js-xss vs sanitize-html