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nkeys

v0.4.5 Growing

Rust implementation of the NATS nkeys library

Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
AuthenticationCryptography #crypto#cryptography#nats#ed25519

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 591 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
23.8M
Dependents
591
Releases
23
Size
27KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

5.7M downloads in the last 30 days (188.8K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

591 crates depend on nkeys. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 7+ years old, nkeys hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 26KB, nkeys is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Notable yanked versions

22% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include async-nats, nats, wascap, wadm-client, nats-jwt-rs. When high-quality crates choose nkeys, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 18/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
175K/day avg+32%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.3.2
72%
v0.4.5
10%
v0.2.0
8%
v0.4.4
8%
v0.1.0
2%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
14
direct dependencies
Dependents
591
crates depend on nkeys

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