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libsodium-sys

v0.2.7 Growing

FFI binding to libsodium

MIT OR Apache-2.0
API bindingsCryptography #crypto#libsodium#nacl

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 4+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 335 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
7.3M
Dependents
335
Releases
25
Size
4.6MB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

284.3K downloads in the last 30 days (9.5K/day), up 15% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

335 crates depend on libsodium-sys. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, libsodium-sys hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Large crate size

4.6MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include sodiumoxide, secstr, thrussh-libsodium, dryoc, secrets. When high-quality crates choose libsodium-sys, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 5/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 11/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
9K/day avg+7%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.7
85%
v0.0.16
6%
v0.2.6
5%
v0.2.5
3%
v0.0.14
1%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

use-pkg-config

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
335
crates depend on libsodium-sys

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