sha3
v0.10.8 GrowingPure Rust implementation of SHA-3, a family of Keccak-based hash functions including the SHAKE family of eXtendable-Output Functions (XOFs), as well as the accelerated variant TurboSHAKE
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 9d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (15.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
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Deep Insights
6.7M downloads in the last 30 days (222.1K/day), up 21% from the previous period.
15.7K crates depend on sha3 — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 211 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 9+ years old, sha3 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
Notable dependents include rsa, elliptic-curve, ed25519-dalek, lalrpop, k256. When high-quality crates choose sha3, it's a strong quality signal.
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