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ascon-aead

v0.5.2 Growing

Implementation of the authenticated encryption schemes Ascon-AEAD128

Apache-2.0 OR MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85
CryptographyNo standard library #encryption#aead#ascon

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 63d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 118 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

Security

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Downloads
140.5K
Dependents
118
Releases
19
Size
50KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

7.1K downloads in the last 30 days (237/day), up 177% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

118 crates depend on ascon-aead. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 5+ years old, ascon-aead hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include aegis, memsecurity, cas-lib, citadel_pqcrypto, insectbox. When high-quality crates choose ascon-aead, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
158/day avg+59%
05001K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.2
49%
v0.4.4
42%
v0.5.2
6%
v0.4.3
2%
v0.5.1
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["alloc", "getrandom", "dep:zeroize"]

stdalloc*bytesstreamzeroizearrayvecheaplessgetrandom*rand_core

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
118
crates depend on ascon-aead

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