Is hmac-sha256 safe to use?

hmac-sha256 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.1.14). DepScope rates its health at 74/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of hmac-sha256?

The latest version of hmac-sha256 is 1.1.14, released 2026-02-13.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of hmac-sha256.

No, hmac-sha256 is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.1.14 (2026-02-13).

Popular alternatives to hmac-sha256 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

hmac-sha256 is licensed under ISC.

cargov1.1.14

A small, self-contained SHA256, HMAC-SHA256, and HKDF-SHA256 implementation

License ISCpermissive24 versions0 deps3,349,759 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 74/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

1

Primary author dominance

100%

GitHub stars

37

single active maintainer 3msingle author dominance

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.68high

API access

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