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Confidant vs Strongbox: What are the differences?
Developers describe Confidant as "An open-source secret management service from Lyft". Confidant is a open source secret management service that provides user-friendly storage and access to secrets in a secure way, from the developers at Lyft. On the other hand, Strongbox is detailed as "A secret manager for AWS". Strongbox is a CLI/GUI and SDK to manage, store, and retrieve secrets (access tokens, encryption keys, private certificates, etc). Strongbox is a client-side convenience layer on top of AWS KMS, DynamoDB and IAM. It manages the AWS resources for you and configure them in a secure way.
Confidant and Strongbox belong to "Secrets Management" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Confidant are:
- KMS Authentication
- At-rest encryption of versioned secrets
- A user-friendly web interface for managing secrets
On the other hand, Strongbox provides the following key features:
- Serverless
- Simple access model
- Encryption
Strongbox is an open source tool with 244 GitHub stars and 21 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Strongbox's open source repository on GitHub.