chacha20
v0.10.0crates.io· RustThe ChaCha20 stream cipher (RFC 8439) implemented in pure Rust using traits from the RustCrypto `cipher` crate, with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration (AVX2, SSE2). Additionally provides the ChaCha8, ChaCha12, XChaCha20, XChaCha12 and XChaCha8 stream ciphers, and also optional rand_core-compatible RNGs based on those ciphers.
The verdict
Safe default. Widely trusted across the ecosystem, actively maintained.
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How it scores
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PopularityTop 1%
SecurityClean
LicensePermissive
DepsZero deps
Maintenance
Last published 4 months ago.
Popularity
3.1M downloads / week
Security
No known advisories for this version (OSV).
License
Apache-2.0 OR MIT
Dependencies
No runtime dependencies
Recent releases
- 0.10.04 months ago
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