md-5
v0.11.0 GrowingMD5 hash function
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 0d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (9.0K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
15.8M downloads in the last 30 days (526.6K/day), up 26% from the previous period.
9.0K crates depend on md-5. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
The primary maintainer publishes 211 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 8+ years old, md-5 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 17KB, md-5 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include uuid, hmac, sqlx-postgres, sqlx-mysql, object_store. When high-quality crates choose md-5, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
Recency, release consistency, active ratio
Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features
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Top Dependents
Most downloaded crates that depend on md-5
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Feature Flags
default =["alloc", "oid"]
