JRjrnkntl·Feb 18, 2022Submission
Themis: Strong, usable cryptography for busy people
2 points · Open discussioncossacklabs
themis
C2015–2022
cossacklabs / themis
themis
Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
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Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
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Observed mentions: 2015-05-20 17:37:19 UTC to 2022-02-18 07:28:50 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesTime for some shameless plugs! Themis [1] has been doing this “hard to misuse” thing for quite a few years. It has major focus on interoperability: supports a dozen of languages, with Rust among them, across all major desktop, mobile, and web platforms.
It tries really hard to hide all the crypto mumbo-jumbo from the users so that they don’t have to be experts in algorithm choice and protocol design in order to safely use a library instead of shooting themselves in a foot.
Themis is also a wrapper over OpenSSL/BoringSSL, relying on proven crypto implementations instead of trading a simpler build system for god knows how many sleeper primitive implementation bugs. However, binary packages exist for major distros, so if you don't want to build from source you can avoid that easily.
Also, docs for humans do exist [2], packages exist, etc.
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So the modern alternative would be this for file encryption, and signify for signing. What's the consensus on an alternative for GPG authenticating?
And what are the expert opinions on themis: https://github.com/cossacklabs/themis ?
In Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption toolThemis – A high-level cryptographic services library
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