Open Source OpenSSL AlternativesCryptography Libraries and other similar apps like OpenSSL

The best open source alternative to OpenSSL is LibreSSL. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to OpenSSL and eight of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to OpenSSL are mbed TLS, GnuTLS, Network Security Services and wolfSSL.

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  1. LibreSSL icon
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    LibreSSL is a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Cleaned up. Removed crap like SSL, SHA-0 and many other things.

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    • LibreSSL is Free and Open SourceOpenSSL is also Free and Open Source
  2. mbed TLS icon
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    Mbed TLS (formerly known as PolarSSL) makes it trivially easy for developers to include cryptographic and SSL/TLS capabilities in their (embedded) products, facilitating this functionality with a minimal coding footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. GnuTLS icon
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    GnuTLS (the GNU Transport Layer Security Library) is a free software implementation of the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols. It offers an application programming interface (API) for applications to enable secure communication over their network transport layer, as well as interfaces...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Network Security Services (NSS) comprises a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with an option support for hardware SSL acceleration on the server side and hardware smart cards on the client side.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  5. wolfSSL icon
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    wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. http://www.wolfssl.com.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Themis is a cryptolibrary, providing high-quality security services for secure messaging and encrypted storage. Themis is aimed at modern development practices, with wrappers for Ruby, Python, PHP, Java / Android and iOS / OSX.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Using certificates from real certificate authorities (CAs) for development can be dangerous or impossible (for hosts like example.test, localhost or 127.0.0.1), but self-signed certificates cause trust errors.

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  8. Ciphey icon
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    Ciphey aims to be a tool to automate a lot of decryptions & decoding's such as multiple base encodings, classical ciphers, hashes or more advanced cryptography. Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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