digest
v0.11.2 GrowingTraits for cryptographic hash functions and message authentication codes
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 14d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (12.6K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
45.5M downloads in the last 30 days (1.5M/day), up 23% from the previous period.
12.6K crates depend on digest — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 211 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 9+ years old, digest hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 28KB, digest is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
43% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include sha2, hmac, sha1, signature, md-5. When high-quality crates choose digest, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["block-api"]
