Is ed25519-dalek safe to use?

ed25519-dalek has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (3.0.0-pre.6). DepScope rates its health at 77/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of ed25519-dalek?

The latest version of ed25519-dalek is 3.0.0-pre.6, released 2026-02-04.

Does ed25519-dalek have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of ed25519-dalek.

Is ed25519-dalek deprecated?

No, ed25519-dalek is actively maintained. Latest release: 3.0.0-pre.6 (2026-02-04).

What are alternatives to ed25519-dalek?

Popular alternatives to ed25519-dalek in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

What license does ed25519-dalek use?

ed25519-dalek is licensed under BSD-3-Clause.

ed25519-dalek

cargov3.0.0-pre.6

Fast and efficient ed25519 EdDSA key generations, signing, and verification in pure Rust.

License BSD-3-Clausepermissive42 versions0 deps39,383,381 weekly dl

dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek/tree/main/ed25519-dalek

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 77/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.75critical

Download trend

stable(+3.5%)

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