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Fail2ban vs OpenSSL: What are the differences?
What is Fail2ban? *An intrusion prevention software framework *. It is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks. Written in the Python programming language, it is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, for example, iptables or TCP Wrapper.
What is OpenSSL? 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.
Fail2ban and OpenSSL can be primarily classified as "Security" tools.
Fail2ban is an open source tool with 4.25K GitHub stars and 764 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Fail2ban's open source repository on GitHub.
Bitbucket, Switchfly, and ThriveHive are some of the popular companies that use OpenSSL, whereas Fail2ban is used by PassionDig, Jobinja, and billware. OpenSSL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3996 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Fail2ban, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
