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rcgen

v0.14.7 Growing

Rust X.509 certificate generator

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021 MSRV 1.71
#certificate#mkcert#ca

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 67d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (9.6K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
52.8M
Dependents
9.6K
Releases
50
Size
65KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

6.1M downloads in the last 30 days (205.0K/day), up 15% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

9.6K crates depend on rcgen. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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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 7+ years old, rcgen hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include rustls, tokio-rustls, rustls-webpki, webpki-roots, quinn-proto. When high-quality crates choose rcgen, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 15/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 13/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 17/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
171K/day avg+53%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.13.2
27%
v0.10.0
24%
v0.11.3
17%
v0.12.1
16%
v0.14.5
15%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["crypto", "pem", "ring"]

fipsring*crypto*aws_lc_rsaws_lc_rs_unstable

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
9
direct dependencies
Dependents
9.6K
crates depend on rcgen

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