sodiumoxide
v0.2.7 GrowingFast cryptographic library for Rust (bindings to libsodium)
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 4+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (1.7K crates depend on it)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)
Security
Deep Insights
243.5K downloads in the last 30 days (8.1K/day), up 10% from the previous period.
1.7K crates depend on sodiumoxide. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.
sodiumoxide has only 1 owner despite 1.7K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern — consider the implications for long-term support.
Despite being 11+ years old, sodiumoxide hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
2.1MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.
20% of releases have been yanked. Check version history before pinning.
Notable dependents include sovrin-client, dryoc, dup-crypto, discord, indy-sdk. When high-quality crates choose sodiumoxide, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
Recency, release consistency, active ratio
Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features
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Top Dependents
Most downloaded crates that depend on sodiumoxide
Version Adoption
Release Timeline
Feature Flags
default =["serde", "std"]
