rcgen
v0.14.8 GrowingRust X.509 certificate generator
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 14d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (12.6K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
7.8M downloads in the last 30 days (258.9K/day), up 35% from the previous period.
12.6K crates depend on rcgen — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
This crate is maintained by a team (2 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.
Despite being 7+ years old, rcgen hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include rustls, tokio-rustls, rustls-webpki, webpki-roots, quinn-proto. When high-quality crates choose rcgen, it's a strong quality signal.
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default =["crypto", "pem", "ring"]
