Snort vs OpenSSL: What are the differences?

Developers describe Snort as "An open-source security software product that looks at network traffic in real time and logs packets to perform detailed analysis". It is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats. On the other hand, OpenSSL is detailed as "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.

Snort and OpenSSL can be categorized as "Security" tools.

Some of the features offered by Snort are:

• Intrusion Agent
• IPSx
• IPS

On the other hand, OpenSSL provides the following key features:

• Robust
• Commercial-grade
• Transport Layer Security

Snort is an open source tool with 696 GitHub stars and 218 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Snort's open source repository on GitHub.