blowfish

2.2M downloads in the last 30 days (73.1K/day), up 25% from the previous period.

286 crates depend on blowfish. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

The primary maintainer publishes 211 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

Despite being 9+ years old, blowfish hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

Only 3 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

At 16KB, blowfish is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Notable dependents include bcrypt, bcrypt-pbkdf, pgp, pwhash, sequoia-openpgp. When high-quality crates choose blowfish, it's a strong quality signal.