Is getrandom safe to use?

getrandom has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.4.2). DepScope rates its health at 80/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of getrandom?

The latest version of getrandom is 0.4.2, released 2026-03-03.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of getrandom.

No, getrandom is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.4.2 (2026-03-03).

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

getrandom is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

cargov0.4.2

A small cross-platform library for retrieving random data from system source

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive47 versions0 deps305,376,516 weekly dl

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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

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

8

Contributors (12m)

12

Primary author dominance

34%

GitHub stars

539

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

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