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chacha20poly1305 vs chacha20poly1305-nostd vs chacha20-poly1305-aead
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
72
chacha20poly1305
growingv0.10.1
Pure Rust implementation of the ChaCha20Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data Cipher (RFC 8439) with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration. Also contains implementations of the XChaCha20Poly1305 extended nonce variant of ChaCha20Poly1305, and the reduced-round ChaCha8Poly1305 and ChaCha12Poly1305 lightweight variants.
48
chacha20poly1305-nostd
experimentalv0.1.0
Pure-Rust ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD implementation for no_std/bare-metal targets (avoids LLVM SIMD issues)
47
chacha20-poly1305-aead
growingv0.1.2
A pure Rust implementation of the ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD from RFC 7539.
Core Metrics
| chacha20poly1305 | chacha20poly1305-nostd | chacha20-poly1305-aead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 72 | 48 | 47 |
| Total Downloads | 49.7M | 138 | 352.4K |
| 30d Downloads | 4.0M | 26 | 8.7K |
| Dependents | 5.9K | 4 | 120 |
| Releases | 34 | 1 | 3 |
| Last Updated | 53d ago | 95d ago | 3707d ago |
| Age | 9y 5m | 3m | 10y 1m |
Health Breakdown
chacha20poly1305
Maintenance
15
Quality
16
Community
20
Popularity
8
Documentation
13
chacha20poly1305-nostd
Maintenance
8
Quality
16
Community
8
Popularity
3
Documentation
13
chacha20-poly1305-aead
Maintenance
3
Quality
17
Community
9
Popularity
7
Documentation
11
Technical Details
| chacha20poly1305 | chacha20poly1305-nostd | chacha20-poly1305-aead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.10.1 | 0.1.0 | 0.1.2 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | Apache-2.0 OR MIT | Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Crate Size | 68KB | 10KB | 19KB |
| Features | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| Yanked % | 2.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | — |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 2 (team) | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •chacha20poly1305 leads with a health score of 72/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •chacha20poly1305 is depended on by 5.9K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ chacha20-poly1305-aead has not been updated in over a year.