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rust_sodium

v0.10.2 Growing

Fast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium)

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2018
Cryptography #crypto#cryptography#sodium#cryptographic

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 7+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 256 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
147.5K
Dependents
256
Releases
14
Size
2.1MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

945 downloads in the last 30 days (32/day), up 62% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

256 crates depend on rust_sodium. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 154 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 9+ years old, rust_sodium hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Large crate size

2.1MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include routing, crust, p2p, safe_crypto, secure_serialisation. When high-quality crates choose rust_sodium, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 7/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 12/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
23/day avg+78%
05010012/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.10.2
63%
v0.1.2
13%
v0.7.0
10%
v0.3.0
8%
v0.10.1
6%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
8
direct dependencies
Dependents
256
crates depend on rust_sodium

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