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russh-keys

v0.49.2 Growing

Deal with SSH keys: load them, decrypt them, call an SSH agent.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2018 MSRV 1.65
#ssh

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 366 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (53 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
1.7M
Dependents
366
Releases
47
Size
34KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

90.9K downloads in the last 30 days (3.0K/day), up 14% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

366 crates depend on russh-keys. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 4+ years old, russh-keys hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

53 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Compact crate

At 34KB, russh-keys is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include gnostr, remotefs-ssh, podman-rest-client, nebulous, eejit. When high-quality crates choose russh-keys, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 8/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 9/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 14/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
3K/day avg+35%
01K2K3K4K5K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.38.0
58%
v0.45.0
21%
v0.49.2
11%
v0.43.0
5%
v0.37.1
4%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
53
direct dependencies
Dependents
366
crates depend on russh-keys

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