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minisign-verify

v0.2.5 Growing

A small, zero-dependencies crate to verify Minisign signatures.

MIT Edition 2018
Cryptography #crypto#ed25519#signatures#minisign

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 24d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 892 crates
  • โœ“Tiny footprint (25KB, 0 deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
5.0M
Dependents
892
Releases
15
Size
25KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

968.3K downloads in the last 30 days (32.3K/day), up 59% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

892 crates depend on minisign-verify. 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-verify hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Zero dependencies

minisign-verify has no external dependencies โ€” minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.

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Compact crate

At 24KB, minisign-verify is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tauri-plugin-updater, libsodium-sys-stable, mise, binstalk-fetchers, proto_core. When high-quality crates choose minisign-verify, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
21K/day avg+161%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.2.4
54%
v0.2.1
22%
v0.2.3
13%
v0.2.2
6%
v0.2.5
5%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
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direct dependencies
Dependents
892
crates depend on minisign-verify

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