md-5
v0.11.0 GrowingMD5 hash function
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 59d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (10.8K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
20.9M downloads in the last 30 days (696.5K/day), up 28% from the previous period.
10.8K crates depend on md-5 — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 215 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 9+ 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, object_store, aws-smithy-checksums. When high-quality crates choose md-5, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
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Most downloaded crates that depend on md-5
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Feature Flags
default =["alloc", "oid"]
