Is pkcs5 safe to use?

pkcs5 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8.0). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of pkcs5?

The latest version of pkcs5 is 0.8.0, released 2026-04-24.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pkcs5.

No, pkcs5 is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8.0 (2026-04-24).

Popular alternatives to pkcs5 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

pkcs5 is licensed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT.

cargov0.8.0

Pure Rust implementation of Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Version 2.1 (RFC 8018)

License Apache-2.0 OR MITpermissive30 versions0 deps5,739,340 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

319

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.70high

API access

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