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Virgil Security vs OpenSSH: What are the differences?
Virgil Security: We make every developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil consists of an open-source encryption library, which implements CMS and ECIES(including RSA schema), a Key Management API, and a cloud-based Key Management Service; OpenSSH: Free suite of tools that help secure your network connections. It is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and sophisticated configuration options.
Virgil Security and OpenSSH can be primarily classified as "Security" tools.
Some of the features offered by Virgil Security are:
- End-to-end encryption
- Passwordless authentication
- Data verification
On the other hand, OpenSSH provides the following key features:
- Free SSH protocol suite
- Encryption for network services
- Strong cryptography
Virgil Security is an open source tool with 138 GitHub stars and 12 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Virgil Security's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of OpenSSH
Pros of Virgil Security
- Saves me time and money1
- Added end-to-end encryption in minutes1
- #NoMorePasswords1
- #EncryptEverything1
- Quick and easy to implement & deploy1
- Easy API / SDK on every platform I need1