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minisign

v0.9.1 Growing

A crate to sign files and verify signatures.

MIT Edition 2018
Cryptography #cryptography#command-line#sign#publickey#minisign

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 24d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 349 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
1.3M
Dependents
349
Releases
43
Size
39KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

117.5K downloads in the last 30 days (3.9K/day), up 59% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

349 crates depend on minisign. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 139 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

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

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Compact crate

At 38KB, minisign is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tauri-cli, wasmer-registry, cargo-packager, rsign2, lucet-module. When high-quality crates choose minisign, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
3K/day avg+96%
02K4K6K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.3
55%
v0.8.0
16%
v0.7.9
12%
v0.7.6
10%
v0.7.5
7%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
5
direct dependencies
Dependents
349
crates depend on minisign

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