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ecies

v0.2.11 Growing

Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.81
#cryptography#secp256k1#ed25519#x25519#ecies

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 19d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 240 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (25 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
407.4K
Dependents
240
Releases
18
Size
38KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

43.3K downloads in the last 30 days (1.4K/day), up 81% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

240 crates depend on ecies. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, ecies hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

25 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Compact crate

At 37KB, ecies is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include carbonado, rings-core, ncsisc, web5-rust, uma. When high-quality crates choose ecies, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 16/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 9/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
1K/day avg+87%
01K2K3K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.9
36%
v0.2.6
23%
v0.2.10
17%
v0.2.7
12%
v0.2.5
11%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["aes-openssl"]

stdpurex25519ed25519opensslzeroizeaes-rustsecp256k1xchacha20aes-openssl*aes-short-nonceaes-12bytes-nonce

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
25
direct dependencies
Dependents
240
crates depend on ecies

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