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p256k

v0.0.1-alpha Growing

secp256k1 elliptic curve library written in pure Rust with support for ECDSA signing/verification/public-key recovery, Taproot Schnorr signatures (BIP340), Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH), and general-purpose secp256k1 elliptic curve group operations which can be used to implement arbitrary protocols

Apache-2.0 OR MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.73
CryptographyNo standard libraryCryptography::Cryptocurrencies #crypto#bitcoin#secp256k1#ethereum#ecc

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
  • !100% of releases were yanked

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Downloads
2.2K
Dependents
0
Releases
2
Size
90KB

Deep Insights

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Download activity

2 downloads in the last 30 days (0/day avg).

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 215 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 2+ years old, p256k hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Notable yanked versions

100% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 4/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

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Community 6/20

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Popularity 4/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

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Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["arithmetic", "ecdsa", "pkcs8", "precomputed-tables", "schnorr", "std"]

jwkpemstd*bitsecdhallocecdsa*pkcs8*serdedigestsha256schnorr*arithmetic*hash2curveexpose-fieldtest-vectorscritical-sectionprecomputed-tables*

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Maintainers

Dependencies
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Dependents
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