Authy vs Virgil Security

Authy vs Virgil Security: What are the differences?

What is Authy? The easiest way to add Two-Factor Authentication to any website or app. We make the best rated Two-Factor Authentication smartphone app for consumers, a Rest API for developers and a strong authentication platform for the enterprise.

What is 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.

Authy and Virgil Security can be primarily classified as "Security" tools.

Some of the features offered by Authy are:

• Very secure- We take security seriously. We use industry standard secure algorithms (HMAC RFC 4426) and 256 bits keys which are always encrypted at rest.
• Fully redundant- The Authy API is deployed accross different PCI level 1 data-centers and it's fully redundant. We also use a DNS provider with anycast support. We've had 100% availability since 2011.
• Great user experience- You connect to Authy using a transparent REST API which allows you to customize the experience you want for your users.

On the other hand, Virgil Security provides the following key features:

• End-to-end encryption
• Passwordless authentication
• Data verification

Virgil Security is an open source tool with 139 GitHub stars and 12 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Virgil Security's open source repository on GitHub.