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winternitz-ots

v0.3.0 Growing

A Rust Library For Interacting With Winternitz One-Time Signatures, a Hash-Based, Post-Quantum Digital Signature Scheme Based On Lamport Signatures. This implementation uses the hash function Blake2b for all hashing, due to its speed and security, with a winternitz parameter of 16, and a digest size (n) of 32 bytes.

Apache-2.0 Edition 2018
AlgorithmsAuthenticationCryptography #crypto#cryptography#security#signature#post-quantum

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 5+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0)

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Downloads
6.0K
Dependents
12
Releases
4
Size
12KB

Deep Insights

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Download decline

78 downloads in the last 30 days, down 31% from the previous period. May indicate migration to alternatives.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, winternitz-ots hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 11KB, winternitz-ots is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 7/25

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Quality 14/25

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Community 9/20

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Popularity 5/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

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Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
0/day avg
02/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

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Version Adoption

v0.3.0
36%
v0.1.0
22%
v0.1.1
21%
v0.2.0
20%

Release Timeline

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Dependencies
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Dependents
12
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