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chacha20

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chacha20
growingv0.10.0

The ChaCha20 stream cipher (RFC 8439) implemented in pure Rust using traits from the RustCrypto `cipher` crate, with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration (AVX2, SSE2). Additionally provides the ChaCha8, ChaCha12, XChaCha20, XChaCha12 and XChaCha8 stream ciphers, and also optional rand_core-compatible RNGs based on those ciphers.

Core Metrics

chacha20
Health Score70
Total Downloads61.7M
30d Downloads8.4M
Dependents1.4K
Releases43
Last Updated48d ago
Age9y 5m

Health Breakdown

chacha20
Maintenance
15
Quality
12
Community
20
Popularity
8
Documentation
15

Technical Details

chacha20
Version0.10.0
Stable (≥1.0)✗ No
LicenseMIT OR Apache-2.0
Dependencies7
Crate Size39KB
Features4
Yanked %14.0%
Edition2024
MSRV1.85
Owners2 (team)

Links

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Quick Verdict

  • •chacha20 leads with a health score of 70/100, but none of the options score above 80.
  • •chacha20 is depended on by 1.4K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.