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eax

v0.5.0 Growing

Pure Rust implementation of the EAX Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Cipher with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration This scheme is only based on a block cipher. It uses counter mode (CTR) for encryption and CBC mode for generating a OMAC/CMAC/CBCMAC (all names for the same thing).

Apache-2.0 OR MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.56
CryptographyNo standard library #aes#encryption#aead

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 107 crates
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

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Downloads
3.8M
Dependents
107
Releases
10
Size
15KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

495.1K downloads in the last 30 days (16.5K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

107 crates depend on eax. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, eax hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 15KB, eax is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pgp, sequoia-openpgp, mmkv, tsproto, cmail-rpgp. When high-quality crates choose eax, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 17/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
16K/day avg-57%
010K20K30K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.5.0
97%
v0.3.0
2%
v0.4.1
0%
v0.6.0-rc.3
0%
v0.4.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["alloc", "getrandom"]

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
107
crates depend on eax

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