sha1
v0.11.0 GrowingSHA-1 hash function
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 59d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (18.5K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (3 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
29.6M downloads in the last 30 days (987.2K/day), up 27% from the previous period.
18.5K crates depend on sha1 — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 216 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 11+ years old, sha1 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 15KB, sha1 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include hmac, axum, tungstenite, zip, pbkdf2. When high-quality crates choose sha1, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
Recency, release consistency, active ratio
Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features
Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem
Downloads, momentum, growth trend
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Most downloaded crates that depend on sha1
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Feature Flags
default =["alloc", "oid"]
