Is aes-gcm safe to use?

aes-gcm has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.11.0-rc.3). DepScope rates its health at 80/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of aes-gcm?

The latest version of aes-gcm is 0.11.0-rc.3, released 2026-02-02.

Does aes-gcm have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of aes-gcm.

Is aes-gcm deprecated?

No, aes-gcm is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.11.0-rc.3 (2026-02-02).

What are alternatives to aes-gcm?

Popular alternatives to aes-gcm in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

What license does aes-gcm use?

aes-gcm is licensed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT.

aes-gcm

cargov0.11.0-rc.3

Pure Rust implementation of the AES-GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Cipher with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration

License Apache-2.0 OR MITpermissive34 versions0 deps19,403,854 weekly dl

RustCrypto/AEADs

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 80/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

4.3/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

5

Contributors (12m)

9

Primary author dominance

44%

GitHub stars

921

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.73critical

Health History

Dependency Tree

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