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salsa20

v0.11.0 Growing

Pure Rust implementation of the Salsa20 stream cipher

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2024 MSRV 1.85
CryptographyNo standard library #crypto#trait#stream-cipher#xsalsa20

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 639 crates
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
67.5M
Dependents
639
Releases
26
Size
45KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

5.3M downloads in the last 30 days (177.0K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

639 crates depend on salsa20. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 216 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, salsa20 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 44KB, salsa20 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include scrypt, crypto_secretbox, crypto_box, russh, libp2p-pnet. When high-quality crates choose salsa20, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 11/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 15/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 19/20

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
155K/day avg-41%
050K100K150K200K250K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.10.2
95%
v0.9.0
3%
v0.11.0
2%
v0.11.0-rc.1
0%
v0.11.0-rc.2
0%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
639
crates depend on salsa20

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