Is pkcs8 safe to use?

pkcs8 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.11.0). DepScope rates its health at 88/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of pkcs8?

The latest version of pkcs8 is 0.11.0, released 2026-04-27.

Does pkcs8 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pkcs8.

No, pkcs8 is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.11.0 (2026-04-27).

What are alternatives to pkcs8?

Popular alternatives to pkcs8 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

What license does pkcs8 use?

pkcs8 is licensed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT.

pkcs8

cargov0.11.0

Pure Rust implementation of Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Specification (RFC 5208), with additional support for PKCS#8v2 asymmetric key packages (RFC 5958)

License Apache-2.0 OR MITpermissive51 versions0 deps67,633,939 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 88/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

Contributors (12m)

GitHub stars

0

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.76critical

Download trend

stable(0%)

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