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x448

v0.6.0 Growing

Pure Rust implementation of X448, an elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman function

BSD-3-Clause Edition 2018
Cryptography #crypto#cryptography#diffie-hellman#x448#curve448

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 20d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)

Security

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Downloads
1.8M
Dependents
49
Releases
21
Size
7KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

257.7K downloads in the last 30 days (8.6K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 220 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 6+ years old, x448 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 7KB, x448 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include vru-noise, libsumatracrypt-rs, cmail-rpgp, metamorphic-crypto, vpgp. When high-quality crates choose x448, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 17/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 15/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
8K/day avg-45%
05K10K15K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.14.0-pre.12
51%
v0.14.0-pre.9
20%
v0.14.0-pre.10
16%
v0.14.0-pre.11
8%
v0.14.0-pre.8
5%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
4
direct dependencies
Dependents
49
crates depend on x448

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