Is balloon-hash safe to use?

balloon-hash has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.5.0-rc.5). DepScope rates its health at 60/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of balloon-hash?

The latest version of balloon-hash is 0.5.0-rc.5, released 2026-02-03.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of balloon-hash.

No, balloon-hash is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.5.0-rc.5 (2026-02-03).

Popular alternatives to balloon-hash in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

balloon-hash is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

cargov0.5.0-rc.5

Pure Rust implementation of the Balloon password hashing function

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive14 versions0 deps3,207 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 60/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

6/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

API access

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