Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
ClamAV vs OpenSSL: What are the differences?
Developers describe ClamAV as "Cross-platform and open-source antivirus software toolkit". It is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. On the other hand, OpenSSL is detailed as "Full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer protocols". It is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
ClamAV and OpenSSL belong to "Security" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by ClamAV are:
- Email scanning
- Web scanning
- End point security
On the other hand, OpenSSL provides the following key features:
- Robust
- Commercial-grade
- Transport Layer Security
ClamAV is an open source tool with 866 GitHub stars and 308 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ClamAV's open source repository on GitHub.
