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pinentry

v0.8.0 Growing

API for interacting with pinentry binaries

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.70
API bindingsCommand-line interface #password#passphrase

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 183 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
312.5K
Dependents
183
Releases
12
Size
17KB

Deep Insights

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Download decline

14.5K downloads in the last 30 days, down 24% from the previous period. May indicate migration to alternatives.

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Moderate adoption

183 crates depend on pinentry. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 76 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, pinentry hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 16KB, pinentry is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include age, rage, kbs2, openpgp-card-state, tiny-encrypt. When high-quality crates choose pinentry, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 11/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
573/day avg-31%
05001K2K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.6.0
42%
v0.5.0
37%
v0.5.1
11%
v0.3.0
5%
v0.6.2
5%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
183
crates depend on pinentry

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