aes-gcm
v0.10.3 GrowingPure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Cipher with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 1d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (12.9K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
Security
Deep Insights
8.3M downloads in the last 30 days (278.2K/day), up 21% from the previous period.
12.9K crates depend on aes-gcm — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 216 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 6+ years old, aes-gcm hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
14% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include cookie, snow, tauri-utils, rustcrypt-core, ssh-cipher. When high-quality crates choose aes-gcm, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["aes", "alloc", "getrandom"]
