pinentry
v0.8.0 GrowingAPI for interacting with pinentry binaries
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 83d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 177 crates
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
18.7K downloads in the last 30 days (623/day), up 12% from the previous period.
177 crates depend on pinentry. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
The primary maintainer publishes 74 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 6+ years old, pinentry hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 16KB, pinentry is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include age, rage, kbs2, openpgp-card-state, tiny-encrypt. When high-quality crates choose pinentry, it's a strong quality signal.
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