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pqcrypto-kyber

v0.8.1 Growing

Post-Quantum Key-Encapsulation Mechanism kyber

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
CryptographyNo standard library #cryptography#security#post-quantum

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 2+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 225 crates
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
1.3M
Dependents
225
Releases
28
Size
3.5MB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

66.1K downloads in the last 30 days (2.2K/day), up 15% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

225 crates depend on pqcrypto-kyber. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, pqcrypto-kyber hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Large crate size

3.5MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include snow, darth-rust, crypt_guard, wasi-crypto, tiny-encrypt. When high-quality crates choose pqcrypto-kyber, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
2K/day avg+69%
01K2K3K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.7.6
61%
v0.8.1
15%
v0.7.9
13%
v0.7.5
7%
v0.6.7
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["avx2", "neon", "std"]

std*avx2*neon*serialization

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
7
direct dependencies
Dependents
225
crates depend on pqcrypto-kyber

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