Is cipher safe to use?

cipher has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.5.1). DepScope rates its health at 83/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of cipher?

The latest version of cipher is 0.5.1, released 2026-02-25.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of cipher.

No, cipher is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.5.1 (2026-02-25).

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

cipher is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

cargov0.5.1

Traits for describing block ciphers and stream ciphers

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive38 versions0 deps43,631,750 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 83/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

9

Contributors (12m)

9

Primary author dominance

66%

GitHub stars

739

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.75critical

API access

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