zlint vs certlint

zlint

X.509 Certificate Linter focused on Web PKI standards and requirements. (by zmap)

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X.509 certificate linter (by certlint)

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zlint		certlint
	Project
3	Mentions	1
342	Stars	28
2.3%	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	6.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Go	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

zlint

Posts with mentions or reviews of zlint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.

Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2023

Yup, the two most popular are:
https://github.com/zmap/zlint
https://github.com/certlint/certlint
They each have their strengths and weaknesses, so CAs are advised to use both.
zlint: X.509 Certificate Linter focused on Web PKI standards and requirements.
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 22 Nov 2021
Introducing Certomancer: the Python X.509 testing framework.
2 projects | /r/crypto | 12 Apr 2021

Can you compare it with https://github.com/zmap/zlint as a cert linter?

certlint

Posts with mentions or reviews of certlint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.

Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2023

Yup, the two most popular are:
https://github.com/zmap/zlint
https://github.com/certlint/certlint
They each have their strengths and weaknesses, so CAs are advised to use both.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zlint and certlint you can also consider the following projects:

cli - 🧰 A zero trust swiss army knife for working with X509, OAuth, JWT, OATH OTP, etc.

mod_md - Let's Encrypt (ACME) in Apache httpd

certificate-transparency - Auditing for TLS certificates.

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication.

certomancer - Quickly construct, mock & deploy PKI test configurations using simple declarative configuration.

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

certificates - 🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.