Is chacha20poly1305 safe to use?

chacha20poly1305 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 chacha20poly1305?

The latest version of chacha20poly1305 is 0.11.0-rc.3, released 2026-02-02.

Does chacha20poly1305 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of chacha20poly1305.

Is chacha20poly1305 deprecated?

No, chacha20poly1305 is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.11.0-rc.3 (2026-02-02).

What are alternatives to chacha20poly1305?

Popular alternatives to chacha20poly1305 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

What license does chacha20poly1305 use?

chacha20poly1305 is licensed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT.

chacha20poly1305

cargov0.11.0-rc.3

Pure Rust implementation of the ChaCha20Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data Cipher (RFC 8439) with optional architecture-specific hardware acceleration. Also contains implementations of the XChaCha20Poly1305 extended nonce variant of ChaCha20Poly1305, and the reduced-round ChaCha8Poly1305 and ChaCha12Poly1305 lightweight variants.

License Apache-2.0 OR MITpermissive34 versions0 deps11,283,743 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

0.71critical

Health History

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