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orion

v0.17.13 Growing

Usable, easy and safe pure-Rust crypto

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.86
CryptographyNo standard library #crypto#cryptography#aead#kem#pqc

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 32d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 264 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)
  • !73% of releases were yanked

Security

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Downloads
9.6M
Dependents
264
Releases
85
Size
245KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

504.4K downloads in the last 30 days (16.8K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

264 crates depend on orion. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, orion hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Notable yanked versions

73% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include pasetors, product-os-security, branca, statusline, printer_server. When high-quality crates choose orion, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 9/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
16K/day avg+19%
05K10K15K20K25K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.17.7
31%
v0.17.6
30%
v0.17.11
22%
v0.17.4
12%
v0.17.8
4%

Release Timeline

85 releases62 yankedsince 2018
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2024
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Feature Flags

default =["safe_api", "zeroize"]

allocserdezeroize*safe_api*experimental

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
14
direct dependencies
Dependents
264
crates depend on orion

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