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Lean and Mean Docker containers

9.8 9.1 secret VS Lean and Mean Docker containers

Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)
age

9.7 4.9 secret VS age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

Promo www.influxdata.com

lego

9.4 8.9 secret VS lego

Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go
autocert

9.2 8.1 secret VS autocert

[mirror] Go supplementary cryptography libraries
CertMagic

9.0 7.7 secret VS CertMagic

Automatic HTTPS for any Go program: fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal
Cameradar

8.9 3.4 secret VS Cameradar

Cameradar hacks its way into RTSP videosurveillance cameras
memguard

8.3 5.1 secret VS memguard

Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.
secure

8.2 2.9 secret VS secure

HTTP middleware for Go that facilitates some quick security wins.
acmetool

8.1 0.0 secret VS acmetool

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

8.0 8.7 secret VS Coraza

OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library
Themis by Cossack Labs

8.0 5.9 L3 secret VS Themis by Cossack Labs

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
acra

7.7 6.8 secret VS acra

Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.
ToRat

7.5 0.0 secret VS ToRat

DISCONTINUED. ToRat is a Remote Administation tool written in Go using Tor as a transport mechanism and RPC for communication
dongle

7.1 2.9 secret VS dongle

A simple, semantic and developer-friendly golang package for encoding&decoding and encryption&decryption
Topaz

7.1 9.5 secret VS Topaz

Cloud-native authorization for modern applications and APIs
beelzebub

6.6 8.1 secret VS beelzebub

A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
nacl

6.5 0.0 secret VS nacl

Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of API's
go-yara

6.5 5.9 secret VS go-yara

Go bindings for YARA
booster

6.3 6.3 secret VS booster

Fast and secure initramfs generator
go-password-validator

6.3 0.0 secret VS go-password-validator

Validate the Strength of a Password in Go
ssh-vault

6.2 7.8 secret VS ssh-vault

🌰 encrypt/decrypt using ssh keys
optimus-go

5.9 0.0 secret VS optimus-go

ID hashing and Obfuscation using Knuth's Algorithm
firewalld-rest

5.8 0.0 secret VS firewalld-rest

A rest application to update firewalld rules on a linux server
BadActor

5.7 0.0 secret VS BadActor

BadActor.org An in-memory application driven jailer written in Go
passlib

5.7 0.0 secret VS passlib

:key: Idiotproof golang password validation library inspired by Python's passlib
teler-waf

5.6 9.3 secret VS teler-waf

teler-waf is a Go HTTP middleware that provides teler IDS functionality.
bitwarden-go

5.5 0.0 secret VS bitwarden-go

A Bitwarden-compatible server written in Golang
simple-scrypt

5.2 0.0 secret VS simple-scrypt

A convenience library for generating, comparing and inspecting password hashes using the scrypt KDF in Go 🔑
go-peer

5.1 9.8 secret VS go-peer

A software library for creating secure and anonymous decentralized systems. Confirmed by theoretical works — "Theory of the structure of hidden systems", "Monolithic cryptographic protocol", "Abstract anonymous networks", "Decentralized key exchange protocol".
argon2pw

3.9 0.0 secret VS argon2pw

Argon2 password hashing package for go with constant time hash comparison
goSecretBoxPassword

3.2 0.0 secret VS goSecretBoxPassword

A probably paranoid Golang utility library for securely hashing and encrypting passwords based on the Dropbox method. This implementation uses Blake2b, Scrypt and XSalsa20-Poly1305 (via NaCl SecretBox) to create secure password hashes that are also encrypted using a master passphrase.
go-generate-password

2.9 0.0 secret VS go-generate-password

Password generator written in Golang, usable as a CLI or Go library. Provides options for human readable and accessibility friendly passwords.
go-htpasswd

2.8 3.8 secret VS go-htpasswd

Apache htpasswd Parser for Go.
certificates

2.6 0.0 secret VS certificates

An opinionated helper for generating tls certificates
passwap

2.6 7.2 secret VS passwap

Package passwap provides a unified implementation between different password hashing algorithms. It allows for easy swapping between algorithms, using the same API for all of them.
Credman

2.5 0.0 secret VS Credman

DISCONTINUED. Simple and secure credential/password management with extra steps in Go!
secureio

2.4 0.0 secret VS secureio

An easy-to-use XChaCha20-encryption wrapper for io.ReadWriteCloser (even lossy UDP) using ECDH key exchange algorithm, ED25519 signatures and Blake3+Poly1305 checksums/message-authentication for Go (golang). Also a multiplexer.
sslmgr

2.2 0.0 secret VS sslmgr

A layer of abstraction the around acme/autocert certificate manager (Golang)
go-acl

1.9 0.0 secret VS go-acl

Go support for Access Control Lists
goArgonPass

1.8 0.0 secret VS goArgonPass

goArgonPass is a Argon2 Password utility package for Go using the crypto library package Argon2 designed to be compatible with Passlib for Python and Argon2 PHP. Argon2 was the winner of the most recent Password Hashing Competition. This is designed for use anywhere password hashing and verification might be needed and is intended to replace implementations using bcrypt or Scrypt.
garble

1.8 8.2 secret VS garble

*fork* of https://github.com/burrowers/garble
argon2-hashing

1.7 4.2 secret VS argon2-hashing

A light package for generating and comparing password hashing with argon2 in Go
ACL

0.6 0.0 secret VS ACL

A simple but powerful Access Control List manager
Go random string generator

0.4 0.0 secret VS Go random string generator

Flexible and customizable random string generator
Interpol

- - secret VS Interpol

Rule-based data generator for fuzzing and penetration testing.

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secret v2

What secret is?

It provides simple Go types like secret.Text to encapsulate your secret. Example: type Login struct { User string Password secret.Text }
The encapsulated secret remains inaccessible to operations like printing, logging, JSON serializtion etc. A (customizable) redact hint like ***** is returned instead.
The only way to access the actual secret value is by asking explicitly via the .Value() method.
See godev reference for usage examples.

What secret is not?

It is not a secret management service or your local password manager.
It is not a Go client to facilitate communication with secret managers like Hashicorp Vault, AWS secret Manager etc. Checkout teller if that is what you are looking for.