Is hex-literal safe to use?

hex-literal has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 77/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of hex-literal?

The latest version of hex-literal is 1.1.0, released 2026-02-06.

Does hex-literal have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of hex-literal.

Is hex-literal deprecated?

No, hex-literal is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.1.0 (2026-02-06).

What are alternatives to hex-literal?

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

What license does hex-literal use?

hex-literal is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

hex-literal

cargov1.1.0

A macro for converting hexadecimal string literals to a byte array at compile time

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive17 versions0 deps9,373,716 weekly dl

RustCrypto/utils

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Health

safe to use

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

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

4.6/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

4

Contributors (12m)

5

Primary author dominance

78%

GitHub stars

616

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.71critical

Health History

Dependency Tree

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