OpenSSH vs Virgil Security

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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.

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      Saves me time and money
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      Quick and easy to implement & deploy
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    What is OpenSSH?

    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.

    What is Virgil Security?

    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.

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      What are some alternatives to OpenSSH and Virgil Security?
      OpenSSL
      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.
      Putty
      It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.
      Cygwin
      It is a POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows. Its goal is to allow programs of Unix-like systems to be recompiled and run natively on Windows with minimal source code modifications by providing them with the same underlying POSIX API they would expect in those systems.
      Let's Encrypt
      It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
      Ensighten
      Ensighten is a comprehensive website security company, offering next generation compliance, enforcement and client-side protection against data loss, ad injection and intrusion.
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