Themis (software)

Themis (English pronunciation: [ˈθiːmɪs]; from Ancient Greek Themis, a Greek Titans (mythology) described as "the Lady of good counsel") is an Open-source software high-level cryptographic services library for securing data during authentication, storage, messaging, network exchange, etc.^[1]

Themis uses OpenSSL, BoringSSL, LibreSSL or native cryptographic libraries (f.e. crypto module on Go) as the source of crypto-primitives.^[2] Secure Comparator, an implementation of zero-knowledge proof-based protocol and one of Themis cryptosystems^[2] which allows two parties to compare a shared secret without revealing it to potentially dishonest party, is described in a whitepaper^[3] authored by Ignat Korchagin and Eugene Pilyankevich.

Themis provides unified compatible APIs across 14 platforms: iOS (Swift, Obj-C), Android (Java, Kotlin), desktop Java, С/С++, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, WASM.^[4]

Themis was created by cryptographer and software engineers from the British Information security Cossack Labs in 2015.^[5] The latest update to Themis 0.13.6 was made in November 2020.^[6]

OWASP listed^[7] Themis as a third party Encryption library recommended for mobile platforms.

In 2020, in the Hacker Noon Noonies contest, Themis became a 2-nd runner-up in a category Best Open Source Project.^[8]

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