Is ascon-aead safe to use?

ascon-aead has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.6.0-pre.4). DepScope rates its health at 67/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of ascon-aead?

The latest version of ascon-aead is 0.6.0-pre.4, released 2026-03-23.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of ascon-aead.

No, ascon-aead is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.6.0-pre.4 (2026-03-23).

Popular alternatives to ascon-aead in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

ascon-aead is licensed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT.

cargov0.6.0-pre.4

Implementation of the authenticated encryption schemes Ascon-AEAD128

License Apache-2.0 OR MITpermissive19 versions0 deps21,949 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 67/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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