Is secp256k1 safe to use?

secp256k1 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.32.0-beta.2). DepScope rates its health at 70/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of secp256k1?

The latest version of secp256k1 is 0.32.0-beta.2, released 2025-10-30.

Does secp256k1 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of secp256k1.

Is secp256k1 deprecated?

No, secp256k1 is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.32.0-beta.2 (2025-10-30).

What are alternatives to secp256k1?

Popular alternatives to secp256k1 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

What license does secp256k1 use?

secp256k1 is licensed under CC0-1.0.

secp256k1

cargov0.32.0-beta.2

Rust wrapper library for Pieter Wuille's `libsecp256k1`. Implements ECDSA and BIP 340 signatures for the SECG elliptic curve group secp256k1 and related utilities.

License CC0-1.0permissive98 versions0 deps10,833,519 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 70/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.4/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

4

Contributors (12m)

10

Primary author dominance

51%

GitHub stars

420

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.71critical

Health History

Dependency Tree

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