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cross-krb5

v0.4.2 Growing

Safe cross platform Kerberos v5 interface

MIT Edition 2021
Cryptography #authentication#sspi#kerberos#gssapi#krb5

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 118 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
316.3K
Dependents
118
Releases
9
Size
16KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

43.7K downloads in the last 30 days (1.5K/day), up 29% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

118 crates depend on cross-krb5. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 55 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 4+ years old, cross-krb5 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 16KB, cross-krb5 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Notable yanked versions

22% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include mongodb, ldap3, netidx, ldap-rs, axum-negotiate-layer. When high-quality crates choose cross-krb5, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
1K/day avg+87%
01K2K12/301/172/42/223/123/29

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.4.2
73%
v0.4.1
13%
v0.3.0
10%
v0.4.0
2%
v0.2.2
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
118
crates depend on cross-krb5

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